Screening the Author

The Literary Biopic

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Hila Shachar

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-14
Mått148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt291 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Antal sidor204
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030188528

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Hila Shachar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Film, and a member of the Centre for Adaptations, at De Montfort University, UK. Her book, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), was featured in The New York Times, and nominated for the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. She has also published widely on topics including French cinema, the screen representation of the Holocaust, the biopic genre and historical film, and Australian cinema.

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.