Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: A Respectable Genre of Very Low Repute 1
5. BOOK ONE. THE GREAT(WHITE) MAN BIOPIC AND ITS DISCONTENTS
6. 1. Strachey’s Way, or All’s Well That Ends Welles 31
7. 2. Rembrandt (1936) 41
8. 3. Citizen Kane and the Biopic 50
9. 4. Lawrence of Arabia: “But does he really deserve a place in here?” 72
10. 5. Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man 100
11. 6. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Ghost Picture 128
12. 7. Ed Wood: The Biopic of Someone Undeserving 146
13. 8. Spike Lee’s Malcolm X: Appropriation or Assimilation? 169
14. 9. Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: Drama, Documentary, and Postcolonial Appropriation 191
15. BOOK TWO: A WOMAN'S LIFE IS NEVER DONE: FEMALE BIOPICS
16. 10. Prologue 213
17. 11. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Toying with the Genre 223
18. 12. I Want to Live! Criminal Woman, Male Discourses 238
19. 13. Barbra and Julie at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius 259
20. 14. Hacked: Gorillas in the Mist and Other Female Biopics of the 1980s 289
21. 15. An Angel at My Table: Re-Framing the Female Biography 311
22. 16. Erin Brockovich: Hollywood Feminist Revisionism, after a Fashion 332
23. 17. Twenty-First-Century Women 348
24. 18. I’m Not There: Some Conclusions on a Book Concerning Biopics 377
25. Works Cited 405
26. Index 421
27. About the Author 433