Screening the Creative Process: Genius, Gender, and the Contemporary Biopic (Medienkulturwissenschaft) - Softcover

Baccanti; Anna

 
9783770567744: Screening the Creative Process: Genius, Gender, and the Contemporary Biopic (Medienkulturwissenschaft)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3770567749 ISBN 13: 9783770567744
Verlag: Brill | Fink, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

„Screening the Creative Process“ examines how biographical films about painters and writers depict the notoriously unfilmable process of artistic creation and asks what role gender plays in the conceptualisation of creativity and genius. Through the discussion of three very different 21st-century biopics focused on heterosexual artist couples, „Pollock“, „Frida“, and „Bright Star“, the book follows the hypothesis that the paradigm of creative genius remains uniquely powerful in this film genre. This distinguishes the biopic from other contemporary media and discourses in which the idea of singular, inborn genius has largely been replaced by the concept of creativity as a universal, trainable skill. The biopic's adherence to an emphatic notion of genius - a notion that appears not only obsolete but also politically problematic due to its historical exclusion of women - is especially relevant in light of how deeply these popular films shape public notions about history and art.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anna Baccanti studied comparative literature and philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She completed her PhD at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she currently works as a researcher.

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Verlag
Brill | Fink
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3770567749
ISBN 13 
9783770567744
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
253
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