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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...

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...

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

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...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...

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...

Afterword

Kevin Avery

Kevin Avery's writing has appeared in publications as diverse as Mississippi Review,Penthouse, Weber Studies, and Salt Lake magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and stepdaughter. His first book, Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, is published by Fantagraphics Books. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Conversations with Clint : Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood 1979–1983

Continuum, 1979

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...Despite several requests, Clint Eastwood declined comment for this book. The answer was always the same: he was busy editing his new film and preparing for the next one. “He does wish you the very best with your book.” It would have been...

Brangelina Blend

Michele White

Michele White

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_Deconstructing Brad Pitt

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...A “Brangelina” wedding cake topper depicts Angelina Jolie’s and Brad Pitt’s heads fused onto a single tuxedo-clad body.Mike Leavitt, “Brangelina.jpg,” Intuition Kitchen Productions, 11 February 2013....

Helen Keller, Hollywood and Political Celebrity

Abigail Salerno

Abigail Salerno

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In the Limelight and Under the Microscope : Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

Continuum, 2011

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...THIS ESSAY WILL CONSIDER the deaf and blind American author and activist Helen Keller (1880–1968) as a celebrity within modern media culture, a woman who used the media of her time — especially film and photography, personal appearance...

Signoret, a Life—Chronotopes or Topographies of Space and Time

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (2000) and co-editor of French Film: Texts and Contexts (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Simone Signoret : The Star as Cultural Sign

Continuum, 2004

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...THIS BOOK is not intended to be a biography of Simone Signoret. However, it does seem crucial to place this important icon of Frenchness and French cinema—who was not just a star but also a significant political personage...

Cool Postfeminism

Caitlin Yunuen Lewis

Caitlin Yunuen Lewis

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In the Limelight and Under the Microscope : Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

Continuum, 2011

Book chapter

...Sofia Coppola, director of the bewitchingly ethereal Lost in Translation and, now, the airy, dreamlike Marie Antoinette, swaggers into the room and slaps me heartily on the back. She is wearing a pair of greasy cargo pants and, only...

The Star’s Script: Delon as Director, Producer, and Screenwriter

Isabelle Vanderschelden

Isabelle Vanderschelden

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Alain Delon : Style, Stardom, and Masculinity

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In Chapter 7, Isabelle Vanderschelden investigates an overlooked period in Delon’s career, broadly 1976–1983. It investigates the star’s input into film production, then more specifically into screenwriting and directing. Vanderschelden...