Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic (Hardcover)

Introduction Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Biopic: An Introduction, Marta Minier, Maddalena Pennacchia; Chapter 1 Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to The King’s Speech, Maddalena Pennacchia; Chapter 2 Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People’s Princess as Royal Celebrity, Alessandra Ruggiero; Chapter 3 Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren’s ‘Transformative Acting’ and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen, Isobel Johnstone; Chapter 4 Joining History to Celebiography and Heritage to Documentary on the Small Screen: Spotlight on the Content of the Form in the Metamediatic Royal Bio-docudrama The Queen, Marta Minier; Chapter 5 Shakespeare’s life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame, Paul J.C.M. Franssen; Chapter 6 Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage, Margarida Esteves Pereira; Chapter 7 Beyond ‘Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads’: High In/fidelity in Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium, Liz Jones; Chapter 8 ‘Screening’ the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour, Matteo Fabbris; Chapter 9 Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton’s Carrington, Monika Pietrzak-Franger; Chapter 10 “The child is father of the man…” ? and the Author: Screening the Lives of Children’s Authors, Anja Muller; Chapter 11 Nowhere Boy, A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man, Lucia Esposito;