Invented Lives, Imagined Communities - The Biopic and American National Identity

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.

About the author

William H. Epstein is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. His previous books include Recognizing Biography and Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biographical Criticism. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of Film Studies at Clemson University. His previous books include Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place and (with William Robert Bray) Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America.

Product details

• Authors: William H. Epstein, William H. (EDT)/ Palmer Epstein, William H. Palmer Epstein
• Assisted by: William H Epstein (Editor), William H. Epstein (Editor), R Barton Palmer (Editor), R. Barton Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781438460802
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6080-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism