Screening the author : the literary biopic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shachar, Hila (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:	Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture.
Subjects:	Authors in motion pictures. Biographical films > History and criticism. Film adaptations > History and criticism. Motion pictures and literature. Biographical films. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Biopics, biography, heritage, and the literary biopic
2. Heritage and the literary biopic 'template' : Shakespeare, Austen, Wilde, and the author as product
3. The muse speaks back : silence, invisibility, and reframing authorial identity
4. Feminine authorial mournings : the female writer on screen and the trauma of the present
5. Appropriating the beats, radicalising the literary biopic : intersectional politics and Ginsberg and Kerouac on screen
6. Conclusion: The author as mediator and barometer.