Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History Paperback - 1992
by George Custen
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Bio/Pics is the first comprehensive study of a once important film genre, the biographical film. Using previously unavailable archival materials from Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., MGM, and RKO studios, as well as censorship files from the Production Code Administration, George Custen argues that, through these films, Hollywood manufactured a nearly monochromatic view of history that was systematically distorted in regard to race, gender, nationality, and profession. Employing a carefully selected sample of over one hundred films produced during the studio era (1927-1960), Custen maintains that the biopic constructed a Hollywood code of history out of a tightly controlled reference system, glamorizing the producers' own personal visions of what constituted a great life. Custen's examination of production practices reveals that the machinery of public history operating through these films was fueled by different textual and intertextual sources; Hollywood's model of history was derived from recycled plots played out on its back lots and sound stages, and not from the world outside the studio walls. His analysis of the roles played by star personae, legal considerations, censorship practices, and the producers' own ideologies brings the world of the biopic alive, even into the age of the made-for-TV movie.
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- Title Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History
- Author George Custen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
- Date June 1992
- ISBN 9780813517551 / 0813517559
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.03 x 6.02 x 0.74 in (22.94 x 15.29 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture industry - United States -, Historical films - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-26427
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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