The “Biographical Narrative in Film and Television” Postgraduate Seminar Series, University of Southampton, May and June 2010

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

Victoria Kearley¹ 

[1] University of Southampton;

关键词: biopic;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.1.11

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This seminar series considered the screen genre commonly known as the “biopic”, which at its most basic level can be defined as a film or television programme with a narrative that focuses on the life of a historical person or persons. Its intention was to provoke discussion within this largely neglected area of academic film and television studies which, despite its status as one of the most commercially and critically successful film and television forms of the twenty-first century, the biopic, and its recent resurgence, has received relatively little scholarly attention. Carolyn Anderson and John Lupo, in the introduction to the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s special issue on biopics, describe the form as an “overlooked, underappreciated genre whose ... manifestations deserve new and rigorous scrutiny” (Anderson and Lupo 51). The “Biographical Narratives Postgraduate Seminar Series” aimed to address this call for a reconsideration of the biopic, inviting postgraduate students from across the UK and Ireland to present short papers on this theme and engage in a discussion of the genre with a focus primarily on contemporary manifestations of this form.

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