Biographical television drama / Hannah Andrews.
This book explores what happens when biography and television meet, in a novel fusion of the two fields of study. Andrews compares core concepts in biography and television studies such as intimacy, the presentation of the self and the uneasy relationship between fact and fiction. The book examines...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | This book explores what happens when biography and television meet, in a novel fusion of the two fields of study. Andrews compares core concepts in biography and television studies such as intimacy, the presentation of the self and the uneasy relationship between fact and fiction. The book examines biographical dramas generic hybridity, accounting for the influence of the film biopic, docudrama, melodrama and period drama. It discusses biographical television dramas representation of real lives in terms of visual style, performance and self-reflexivity. Andrews also assesses how life stories are shaped for televisual narrative formats and analyses the adaptation process for the biographical drama. Finally, the book considers various kinds of reputation of the broadcast institution, author, biographical subject in relation to the ethics of televisual biography. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030646777 9783030646776 3030646785 9783030646783 |