The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 103844654
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203384572
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415899413
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Brown and Vidal’s collaboration on The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture emerged out of a shared interest in the representation of history on film and, more specifically, the biographical film as a locus of aesthetic, ideological and ethical debates in Hollywood, Europe and beyond. Many of the book’s contributions were directly solicited in order to enable the collection to cover as broad an international range of cinemas as possible. The editing of the subsequent fourteen chapters was shared equally between Brown and Vidal, with each acting as either first or second editor (roles being balanced equally, and Brown editing Vidal’s chapter and vice-versa). Both editors contributed individual chapters, and Vidal was the sole author of the substantial introduction, with editorial input from Brown. Brown and Vidal’s individual chapters cohere around debates concerning the ethics and veracity of biographical performance in a broadly “middlebrow” mode of film production. Vidal’s extensive and wide-ranging introduction comprises an archaeology of the development of the biopic and the scholarship on it. The introduction updates the aesthetic and theoretical paradigms for the genre that originated in the study of classical Hollywood cinema to account for the international turn in contemporary biopic production, which constitutes the volume’s major critical intervention. The pathbreaking impact of this volume in its field of investigation has led to further collaborative work, with Brown and Vidal being commissioned to write the entry on biopics for the Oxford Bibliographies Online in 2016.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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