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861907
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Shachar, Hila
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| Title & Author
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Screening the author : : the literary biopic /\ Hila Shachar.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture
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1 online resource
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3030188507
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: 9783030188504
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3030188493
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9783030188498
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Praise for Screening the Author; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Biopics, Biography, Heritage, and the Literary Biopic; The Biography, Biopics, and the Heritage Cinema Discourse; The Literary Biopic as Genre; Earlier Literary Biopics and the Contemporary Literary Biopic; Romantic Subjectivity and Authorial Screen Identity; References; Chapter 2 Heritage and the Literary Biopic 'Template': Shakespeare, Austen, Wilde, and the Author as Product; Becoming Jane and the 'Small Room' of Authorship
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'Believing' in Shakespeare the Author in Shakespeare in LoveWilde and the Public Political Masks of Celebrity Authorship; The Author as Product: Further Thoughts; Following the 'Long Trail': Mass-Marketing, Heritage, and Digital Culture; Loving the Author Through Commodification: Fans and by-Products; References; Chapter 3 The Muse Speaks Back: Silence, Invisibility, and Reframing Authorial Identity; The Individuals on the Margins: Probing Female 'Invisibility'; The Female 'Chorus': Reworking the Language of Silence; References
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Chapter 4 Feminine Authorial Mournings: The Female Writer on Screen and the Trauma of the PresentMadness, Creativity, and the Domestic; The Semiotics of Contemporary Authorial Martyrdom; Water and Light: The Female 'Christ'; Prayer, Incantation, and the Literary 'Word': The Trauma of the Present; References; Chapter 5 Appropriating the Beats, Radicalising the Literary Biopic: Intersectional Politics and Ginsberg and Kerouac on Screen; The Spiritual Realm: Radical Religions and the 'Soul' of America; The Earthly Realm: Reframing the Literary Biopic as Intersectional Politics; References
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Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Author as Mediator and BarometerThe Past: The Uses of Nostalgia and Loving the Author from Death; The Present: Collaboration and the Layering of Despair; The Future: Life in the Rain and Authorial Beauty; Final Thoughts: The Future of the Literary Biopic Template?; References; Select Filmography; Index
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen. It does this through two main approaches: by looking at how biographies of well-known authors in Western culture have been adapted onto the film and television screen; and by examining the wider preoccupation with the idea of what the 'author persona' means in broader economic, cultural, industrial, and ideological terms. Drawing from current debates about the uses of the heritage industry and conventions of the Hollywood biopic and celebrity culture, this book re-frames the analysis of the author on screen in contemporary culture and theorises it under its own unique genre: the 'literary biopic'. With case studies including adaptations of the biographies and cultural personas of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Allen Ginsberg--to name a few-this book examines how and why the author continues to be a prominent screen and cultural preoccupation.
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Authors in motion pictures.
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Biographical films-- History and criticism.
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Biographical films.
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Film adaptations-- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Authors in motion pictures.
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Biographical films.
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Film adaptations.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.436
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PN1997.85.S33 2019
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