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Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation
and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the
multiplicity of 'source texts' and the convergence of different
media in this genre, alongside the concurrent issues of fidelity
and authenticity that accompany this form. The contributors 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. Related topics are 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. 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 essays address 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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