Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 4831328
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781409461265
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited book is the first book-length study of post-1990 biopics of British people of fame. Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, the book examines the multiplicity of ‘source texts’ and the convergence of different media in this genre. This edited book is based on a seminar jointly organised by the two editors for the 2010 ESSE conference. Together they selected papers delivered at the seminar for further development with authors into original substantive chapters. They also jointly commissioned new and original work from further additional contributors (chapters 3.9 and 10). Minier co-authored the Introduction, which offers an in-depth study of the genre, and authored the adaptation section single-handedly. Also presented is Minier’s own original chapter which is the first substantial study of the Channel 4 bio-docudrama The Queen.
Chapters focus on big- and small-screen biopics of British celebrities from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, attending to their myth-making and myth-breaking potential. More specific perspectives include the contemporary British biopic’s participation in the production and consumption of celebrated lives, and the biopic’s generic fluidity and hybridity as evidenced in its relationship to such forms as the bio-docudrama (as discussed in Minier’s own chapter). Offering case studies of film biographies of literary and cultural icons, including Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales, John Lennon, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Beau Brummel, Carrington and Beatrix Potter, the book addresses how British identity and heritage are interrogated in the (re)telling and showing of these lives, and how the reimagining of famous lives for the screen is influenced by recent processes of manufacturing celebrity.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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