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Artists’ biographies in film as popular art history

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...Art can be disseminated in many ways: by means of exhibitions, books, guided tours, as well as by articles or documentaries. Editorials and photo essays in literary biographies, coffee table books, comics, children’s books, movies...

Hollywood’s art histories

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...This book has concentrated on a segment of popular art history, taking into consideration its intertextuality, intermediality, historicity, and functionality. It has demonstrated that this segment is an important factor in producing...

Basquiat and celebrity culture

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...In contrast to Pollock, the completion of the biopic BasquiatBasquiat aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire, D: Julian Schnabel, USA 1996, 108 mins; Script: Lech Majewski, John F. Bowe, Michael Holman, Julian Schnabel; Cast: Jeffrey Wright...

Pollock

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...It is astounding that it has taken 50 years for the first biopic on Jackson Pollock to be produced since the stories about the artist Pollock are literally predestined for a biographical Hollywood production. Jackson Pollock is considered...

Taiwan: Popular Cinema’s Disappearing Act

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh

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Contemporary Asian Cinema : Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Berg, 2006

Book chapter

...After enduring a dark decade in the 1990s, Taiwan cinema greeted the new millennium with unusual optimism. Taiwanese directors and their films were received with unprecedented exposure all over the world. First it was Edward Yang’s Yi Yi...

Philippines: Cinema and its Hybridity

José B Capino

José B Capino

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Contemporary Asian Cinema : Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Berg, 2006

Book chapter

...Contrary to what one might expect of a national cinema from the Third World, one of the most famous scenes in contemporary Philippine film is set not in the verdant rice paddies, the teeming slums, or the seedy girlie bars for which...

Sri Lanka: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Modernity

Wimal Dissanayake

Wimal Dissanayake

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Contemporary Asian Cinema : Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Berg, 2006

Book chapter

...The objective of this chapter is to explore the complex interconnections among art, commerce, and cultural modernity in Sri Lankan cinema. My focus of interest is popular cinema. However, in order to examine the nature of popular cinema...

Shadow of a Twisted Hand Across My House

Chris Rodley

Chris Rodley

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Lynch on Lynch

Faber & Faber, 1997

Book chapter

...David Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on 20 January 1946. In his own words, he was there ‘just to be born’ before the family moved – when he was only two months old – to Sandpoint, Idaho. His father, Donald, worked for the Government’s...

Ants in My House

Chris Rodley

Chris Rodley

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Lynch on Lynch

Faber & Faber, 1997

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...In contrast to the speed with which Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me raced into production in 1991, it was to take Lynch four years to get another movie off the ground. This was partly to do with the problem of finding the right project –...

She Wasn’t Fooling Anyone, She Was Hurt and She Was Hurt Bad

Chris Rodley

Chris Rodley

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Lynch on Lynch

Faber & Faber, 1997

Book chapter

...Personal and professional redemption rarely manifest themselves as clearly and triumphantly as they did in Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The mainstream/commercial phase of The Elephant Man and Dune, which had prematurely refracted some...