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  title info:
    title: Screening the Author
    sub title: The Literary Biopic
  name:
    name part: Shachar, Hila.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 204 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Biopics, Biography, Heritage and the Literary Biopic -- 2. Heritage and the Literary Biopic 'Template': Shakespeare, Austen, Wilde and the Author as Product -- 3. The Muse Speaks Back: Silence, Invisibility and Re-framing Authorial Identity -- 4. Feminine Authorial Mournings: The Female Writer on Screen and the Trauma of the Present -- 5. Appropriating the Beats, Radicalising the Literary Biopic: Intersectional Politics and Ginsberg and Kerouac on Screen -- 6. Conclusion: The Author as Mediator and Barometer.
  note: by Hila Shachar.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation Studies
  subject:
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  classification: PN1993-1999
  classification: 791.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
  identifier: 9783030188504
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18850-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 190601
    record change date: 20191022023427.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-18850-4