Adaptation, intermediality and the British celebrity biopic / edited by Márta Minier, University of South Wales, UK, and Maddalena Pennacchia, Roma Tre University, Italy.

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UID on1338288655 Full Title Adaptation, intermediality and the British celebrity biopic / edited by Márta Minier, University of South Wales, UK, and Maddalena Pennacchia, Roma Tre University, Italy. Publication Info Farnham, Surrey, England ;, Ashgate Publishing, [2014] ISBN(s) 9781315565590, 1315565595 Physical Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages.) Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index. […]

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Full Title	Adaptation, intermediality and the British celebrity biopic / edited by Márta Minier, University of South Wales, UK, and Maddalena Pennacchia, Roma Tre University, Italy.
Publication Info	Farnham, Surrey, England ;, Ashgate Publishing, [2014]
ISBN(s)	9781315565590, 1315565595
Physical Description	1 online resource (x, 234 pages.)
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note	Interdisciplinary perspectives on the biopic: an introduction / Márta Minier and Maddalena Pennacchia — Culturally British Bio(e)pics: from Elizabeth to The King’s Speech / Maddalena Pennacchia — Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People’s Princess as Royal Celebrity / Alessandra Ruggiero — Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren’s “Transformative Acting” and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen / Isobel Johnstone — Joining History to Celebiography and Heritage to Documentary on the Small Screen: Spotlight on the Content of the Form in the Metamediatic Royal Bio-docudrama The Queen / Márta Minier — Shakespeare’s Life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame / Paul J.C.M. Franssen — Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage / Margarida Esteves Pereira — Beyond “Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads”: High In/fidelity in Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium / Liz Jones — “Screening” the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour / Matteo Fabbris — Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton’s Carrington / Monika Pietrzak-Franger — “The child is father of the man” and the author: Screening the Lives of Children’s Authors / Anja Müller — Nowhere Boy: A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man / Lucia Esposito.