Screening the Author The Literary Biopic /

• Main Author: Shachar, Hila (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Communication.; Literature-History and criticism.; Adaptation Studies.; Media Studies.; Literary History.

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...

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.