@article{891307,
      recid = {891307},
      author = {Shachar, Hila,},
      title = {Screening the Author : The Literary Biopic /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the  contemporary representation of the author on screen. It  does this through two main approaches: by looking at how  biographies of well-known authors in Western culture have  been adapted onto the film and television screen; and by  examining the wider preoccupation with the idea of what the  'author persona' means in broader economic, cultural,  industrial, and ideological terms. Drawing from current  debates about the uses of the heritage industry and  conventions of the Hollywood biopic and celebrity culture,  this book re-frames the analysis of the author on screen in  contemporary culture and theorises it under its own unique  genre: the 'literary biopic'. With case studies including  adaptations of the biographies and cultural personas of  William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia  Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Allen Ginsberg--to name a  few-this book examines how and why the author continues to  be a prominent screen and cultural preoccupation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/891307},
}