Biography and History in Film
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The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them. This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to historical) films and one that has so far played little part in the growing literature on historical films. The films discussed here date from the 1920s to the 2010s, and deal with males and females in periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. In the process, the book discusses how biographical films reflect changing attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and sexuality, and examines the influence of these films on popular perceptions of the past. The introduction analyses the nature of biographical filmsas a genre: it compares and contrasts the nature of biography on film with written biographies, and considers their relationship with the discipline of history.As the first collection of essays on this popular but understudied genre, this book will be of interest to historians as well as those in film and cultural studies.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
ISBN
9783319894089
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Index

A

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Acheson, Dean
Acton, Sir John
Acts of the Apostles
Adolphus, Gustavus
Aeschylus
Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Albert, Prince Consort
Alexander VI, Pope
Alfonso VI
Ali (2001)
Allen, Irvin
Allen, William
Allen, Woody
Alleyn, Edward
All the President’s Men (1976)
All the Way (2016)
A Man for all Seasons (1966)
Amistad (1997)
Amundsen, Roald
Al-Mu’tamin ibn Hud, Yusef
Al-Qadir
anachronism
Anderson, Judith
Annales School
Anonymous (2011)
Asprey, Charlotte
Atkins, Fred
authenticity
historical accuracy
autobiography
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings (1760)
De Profundis (1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1862)
Interesting Narrative (1789)
Thoughts and Sentiments (1787)

B

Babington, Sir Anthony
Babington Plot
Babington Plotters
Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Bacon, Sir Francis
Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
Balcon, Sir Michael
Ball, Charles
Barrie, J.M.
Barzman, Ben
Bateman, Tom
Baudricourt, Robert de
Bay of Pigs
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Belafonte, Harry
Ben Hur (1959)
Ben Yusuf (Yusuf ibn Tashfin)
Benny Goodman Story (1955)
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bersey, Geoffrey
Bertram, Colin
Biffen, John
biography
and hagiography, boundary between
biographical accuracy
biographical approach
biographical documents
biographical films
biographical method
biographies
of Oscar Wilde
biopics
collective biography
life histories
memoirs
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Black Legend
Black Power Movement
See alsocivil rights
Blanchett, Cate
Bogarde, Dirk
Bolingbroke, Henry
Bond, Derek
Booth, James
Booth, John Wilkes
Borradaile, Osmond
Bouillé, William (canon at Noyon)
Braveheart (1996)
Breen, Joseph
Bréhal, Jean
See alsoGrand Inquisitor of France
Bremner, Ewan
Bresson, Robert
Bronston, Samuel
Brick Lane (2007)
Briggs-Owen, Lucy
Brigham Young-Frontiersman (1940)
Broadbe...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. ‘Movies That Exist Merely to Tell Entertaining Lies’?: Biography on Film
  4. Filming a Legend: Anthony Mann’s El Cid (1961)
  5. Joan of Arc Through Medieval Eyes and Modern Lenses: Dreyer 1928 and Bresson 1962
  6. Blood, Lust, and the Virgin Queen: Helen Mirren’s Elizabeth I
  7. Shakespeare in Love and Anonymous: Two Films More or Less About Shakespeare
  8. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
  9. Twelve Years a Slave and the ‘Unthinkability’ of Enslaved Autobiography
  10. Lincoln Biography and National Reconciliation in the Films Birth of a Nation and Lincoln
  11. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
  12. Infectious Enthusiasm: The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
  13. Filming and Formatting the Explorer Hero: Captain Scott and Ealing Studios’ Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
  14. Inside JFK’s White House: The Myth of John F. Kennedy and Thirteen Days (2000)
  15. Power and Its Loss in The Iron Lady
  16. Back Matter