Overview
- Constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen
- Theorises the screen representation of the author as its own unique cinematic genre of the ‘literary biopic’
- Situates the preoccupation with the figure of the author on screen in wider cultural, economic, and industrial contexts, offering a multidisciplinary approach
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen. It does this through two main approaches: by looking at how biographies of well-known authors in Western culture have been adapted onto the film and television screen; and by examining the wider preoccupation with the idea of what the ‘author persona’ means in broader economic, cultural, industrial, and ideological terms. Drawing from current debates about the uses of the heritage industry and conventions of the Hollywood biopic and celebrity culture, this book re-frames the analysis of the author on screen in contemporary culture and theorises it under its own unique genre: the ‘literary biopic’. With case studies including adaptations of the biographies and cultural personas of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Allen Ginsberg—to name a few–this book examines how and why the author continues to be a prominent screen and cultural preoccupation.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hila Shachar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Film, and a member of the Centre for Adaptations, at De Montfort University, UK. Her book, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), was featured in The New York Times, and nominated for the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. She has also published widely on topics including French cinema, the screen representation of the Holocaust, the biopic genre and historical film, and Australian cinema.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Screening the Author
Book Subtitle: The Literary Biopic
Authors: Hila Shachar
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18850-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18849-8Published: 14 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18852-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18850-4Published: 01 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Adaptation Studies, Media Studies, Literary History