Volume 26, Issue 1: BIOPICS AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
Special Editor: William H. Epstein
“Introduction: Biopics and American National Identity—Invented Lives, Imagined Communities” by William H. Epstein
“Patton: Celebrating the UnAmerican National Hero” by R. Barton Palmer
“The Great White Hope: A Forgotten Biopic?” by James Burns and Abel Bartley
“Woody Guthrie, Warts-and-All: The Biopic in the New American Cinema of the 1970s” by Dennis Bingham
“Thank You: Toward a Buddhist Life of Frances Farmer (1913–1970)” by Catherine Parke
“Nationalizing Abject American Artists: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Jean-Michel Basquiat” by Julie Codell
“Kinsey—An Inquiry into American Sexual Identity” by Gabriele Linke
“The Naked Community Organizer: Politics and Reflexivity in Gus Van Sant’s Milk” by Julia Erhart
Review
Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre. By Dennis Bingham (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2010). Reviewed by Ira Nadel
Availability
In Print: $15/$30
