Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Biopic: An Introduction -- 1 Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to The King's Speech -- 2 Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People's Princess as Royal Celebrity -- 3 Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren's 'Transformative Acting' and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen 4 Joining History to Celebiography and Heritage to Documentary on the Small Screen: Spotlight on the Content of the Form in the Metamediatic Royal Bio-docudrama The Queen -- 5 Shakespeare's life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame -- 6 Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage -- 7 Beyond 'Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads': High In/fidelity in Julien Temple's Pandaemonium -- 8 'Screening' the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour -- 9 Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton's Carrington 10 "The child is father of the man ..."--And the Author: Screening the Lives of Children's Authors -- 11 Nowhere Boy, A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man -- Index