contents
list of illustrations xi
acknowledgments xiii
introduction: the biopic and its critical contexts 1
belén vidal
part one: cultural shifts 33
1. facebooking the present: the biopic and cultural
instantaneity 35
rebecca a. sheehan
2. the contemporary french biopic in national and
international contexts 52
raphaëlle moine
3. the biopic of the new middle classes in contemporary
hindi cinema 68
rachel dwyer
4. recycling historical lives: south korean period biopics
and the culture content industry 84
yun mi hwang
part two: cycles and performance 101
5. performing performers: embodiment and intertextuality
in the contemporary biopic 103
lucy fife donaldson
6. consensual pleasures: amazing grace, oratory, and
the middlebrow biopic 118
tom brown
7. morgan/sheen: the compressed frame of impersonation 140
belén vidal
8. gender, genius, and abjection in artist biopics 159
julie f. codell
9. chanel on screen: female biopics in the age of global
branding 176
ginette vincendeau
part three: icons and auteurs 195
10. cinematic boundaries: aleksandr sokurov’s the sun as
liminal biopic 197
alastair phillips
11. history in the making: sofia coppola’s marie antoinette
and the new auteurism 212
pam cook
12. i’m not there: transcendent thanatography 227
jesse schlotterbeck
13. il divo: the biopic, counter-history, and cine/politics
in the twenty-first century 243
marcia landy
14. gainsbourg: puppetry in the musical biopic 259
robert burgoyne
bibliography 274
contributors 292
about the american film institute 296
x index 29