Introduction: The Biopic and its Critical Contexts - Belén Vidal
I. Cultural Shifts
1. Facebooking the Present: the Biopic and Cultural Instantaneity - Rebecca A. Sheehan
2. The Contemporary French Biopic in National and International Contexts - Raphaëlle Moine
3. The Biopic of the New Middle Classes in Contemporary Hindi Cinema - Rachel Dwyer
4. Recycling Historical Lives: South Korean Period Biopics and the Culture Content Industry - Yun Mi Hwang
II. Cycles and Performance
5. Performing Performers: Embodiment and Intertextuality in the Contemporary Biopic - Lucy Fife Donaldson
6. Consensual Pleasures: Amazing Grace, Oratory and the Middlebrow Biopic - Tom Brown
7. Morgan/Sheen: The Compressed Frame of Impersonation - Belén Vidal
8. Gender, Genius and Abjection in Artist Biopics - Julie F. Codell
9. Chanel on Screen: Female Biopics in the Age of Global Branding - Ginette Vincendeau
III. Icons and Auteurs
10. Cinematic Boundaries: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun as Liminal Biopic - Alastair Phillips
11. History in the Making: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and the New Auteurism - Pam Cook
12. I’m Not There: Transcendent Thanatography - Jesse Schlotterbeck
13. Il Divo: The Biopic, Counter-History, and Cine/Politics in the 21st Century - Marcia Landy
14. Gainsbourg: Puppetry in the Musical Biopic - Robert Burgoyne
Biography
Tom Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. He is the editor (with James Walters) of Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory and (with James Bennett) of Film and Television after DVD, and the author of Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema.
Belén Vidal is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic and The Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation. She is the co-editor of Cinema at the Periphery.
