Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
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Invented Lives, Imagined Communities

The Biopic and American National Identity

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Invented Lives, Imagined Communities

The Biopic and American National Identity

About this book

Biopics—films that chronicle the lives of famous and notorious figures from our national history—have long been one of Hollywood's most popular and important genres, offering viewers various understandings of American national identity. Invented Lives, Imagined Communities provides the first full-length examination of US biopics, focusing on key releases in American cinema while treating recent developments in three fields: cinema studies, particularly the history of Hollywood; national identity studies dealing with the American experience; and scholarship devoted to modernity and postmodernity. Films discussed include Houdini, Patton, The Great White Hope, Bound for Glory, Ed Wood, Basquiat, Pollock, Sylvia, Kinsey, Fur, Milk, J. Edgar, and Lincoln, and the book pays special attention to the crucial generic plot along which biopics traverse and showcase American lives, even as they modify the various notions of the national character.

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Index
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940, John Cromwell), 292
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012, Timur Bekmambetov), 288
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012, Richard Schenkman), 288
Abstract Expressionism, 167, 171, 179
Academy Awards, 53, 102, 224, 230, 247, 281, 307, 317
Adams, John Quincy, 291
African American, 51, 100, 103–104, 174, 224, 226–227, 229–230, 233, 291, 294, 299
Afrika Corps, 126
Agony and the Ecstasy, The (1965, Carol Reed), 164
Aitken, W. Francis, 289
Alden, Mary, 296
Alexander II (Czar), 95
Alexander, Jane, 226
Alexander, Scott, 76, 87, 89
Ali, Muhammad, 223, 232–234, 237
Alice Neel (2007, Andrew Neel), 165
Alkali, Arizona, 101–102
Allen, Woody, 169
Allied Supreme Command, 139
Als, Hilton, 268, 278
Altick, Richard D., 38–39, 46
Altman, Rick, 7, 18
Altman, Robert, 50, 52–53, 135, 164
Alvarez, Al, 189, 193, 195, 197–198
Ambrose, Stephen, 287
American Experience (TV Show), 302
American Film Institute (AFI), 15–16, 18
American Splendor (2003, Shari Springer-Berman & Robert Pulcini), 21, 185, 308, 321
Amistad (1997, Steven Spielberg), 291, 299
Ammiano, Tom, 267
Anderson, Benedict, 2–6, 18, 303, 319
Anderson, Carolyn, 7–8, 14, 18, 20–21, 77, 88, 90, 262, 278, 308, 320
Andrews, Julie, 10
Angel at My Table, An (1991, Jane Cam...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Strategic Patriotic Memories
  7. Performers and Showmen
  8. Hot and Cold Warriors
  9. Artists and Writers
  10. Emancipators and Martyrs
  11. Afterword: The Making of Americans
  12. Contributors
  13. Index
  14. Back Cover