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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Biopic"”.
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My Impossible Task? Writing an Ethical Biopic of Samuel Johnson
… PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer Samuel Johnson, entitled Sam J, and a thesis which reflects upon the process of writing that film. The research question asks whether it is possible to write a biopic which operates within the …
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The artist biopic: a historical analysis of narrative cinema, 1934-2010
… provides an historical overview of the artist biopic that has emerged as a distinct sub-genre of the biopic as a whole, totalling some ninety films from Europe and America alone since the first talking artist biopic in 1934. Their making usually reflects a determination on the part of the …
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The Relevance of the Biopic Krotoa (2017): A Mis-Representation of History?
This dissertation examines the representation the Khoi woman Krotoa in the film of the same name directed by Roberta Durrant (2017). It draws on scholarship by Pamela Scully (2005) and Julia C. Wells (1997), who argue that Krotoa adapted well to her circumstances, following the arrival of Jan Van …
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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
… queer representation and queer visibility in the biopic genre, with a specific focus on the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer people in general? The biopic is …
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Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
<p>This thesis is a screenplay for an imagined "biopic" of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft has already been the subject of many biographies, each presenting their authors' own understanding of her life. Here, I present my view, guided -- to varying and sometimes conflicting degrees -- by my …
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The politics of biopics: Analyzing propaganda films in Bangladesh's political context
… Hasina herself, while the latter is a fictional biopic of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nation's founding leader and Hasina's father. Notably, both films were released in close proximity to the national elections of 2018 and 2024, respectively. Employing a modified ideological criticism as a …
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Then it happened; The four degrees of narrative separation : exploring the process of adaptation through biolographical texts
… below: autobiography, biography and the biopic (in the form of both the screenplay and the final film). If I have done my job as a storyteller relatively well, then – hopefully – upon reading the screenplay, the reader will receive it as one coherent narrative, with a unity of purpose and …
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Exile, Authorship, and 'The Good German': A Reconsideration of the Screenplays and Novels of Emeric Pressburger
… screenplay <i>The Golden Years</i><br/>(1951) a biopic of Richard Strauss, and provide a comparison to demonstrate the manner in which Pressburger’s love of opera overlapped with his development of complex characters and response to the war. Chapter three will analyse Pressburger two published …
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An exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting
… PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of the life and trial of 20th century Scottish medium Helen Duncan, entitled Hellish Nell, and a thesis which reflects the process of writing the script using Linda Aronson's flashback narrative structures. The central focus of this thesis is …