Recent years have seen a striking surge in the production of
literary biopics. Writers turned cinema subject in recent films
include Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Iris Murdoch,
Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Lillian Hellman, Allen
Ginsberg, Kafka, Keats, Kaufman, and many more. This cultural
phenomenon prompts a re-examination of a long and varied history of
cinematic engagements with authorial creativity. The Writer on Film
examines films about writers, real and fictional, from the silent
era to the present. It asks how filmmakers have narratively and
iconographically configured writers' lives and acts of writing. How
might the mysterious processes of a literary imagination at work be
cinematically expressed? What views of inspiration, muses,
redrafting and publication have films taken and how, in cinematic
representation, have these been gendered? How has cinema chosen to
configure the tools and symbols of writing - quills, pens, ink
pots, desks, studies, typewriters, keyboards and books? And what
cultural and commercial agendas are revealed in cinema's compulsive
return not just to literary material (whose story is already well
told) but, specifically, to literary process (whose story is not)?
Case studies include Diary of a Country Priest, Letter from an
Unknown Woman, Julia, My Brilliant Career, Prospero's Books,
Adaptation, Shakespeare in Love, Sylvia, The Lives of Others,
Becoming Jane, Atonement, Bright Star, Enid and Howl.
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