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Memory and Imagination in FilmLives on Film: Gus Van Sant’s Milk

Memory and Imagination in Film: Lives on Film: Gus Van Sant’s Milk [The biopic is a triumph. One only has to look at the list of films on release, dominated at the start of 2012 by the blockbuster about J. Edgar Hoover, directed by the giant of cinema, Clint Eastwood, and Luc Besson’s The Lady (2011), which tells the story of the family life of Aung San Suu Kyi — winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize — and the struggle for democracy in Burma at a time when she was still a prisoner in her own country. The number of biopics on release does not end there: for example, the adventures of Amelia Earhart — the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane — are told in Mira Nair’s’ 2008 film, Amelia; or Infamous (2006) by Douglas McGrath, with the excellent Toby Jones playing Truman Capote, recounts the writer’s investigation into the assassination of all the members of one family in a village in Kansas, a disconcerting story that was the impetus for Capote’s famous novel In Cold Blood (1966).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Memory and Imagination in FilmLives on Film: Gus Van Sant’s Milk

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-31743-1
Pages
169 –181
DOI
10.1057/9781137319432_9
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Abstract

[The biopic is a triumph. One only has to look at the list of films on release, dominated at the start of 2012 by the blockbuster about J. Edgar Hoover, directed by the giant of cinema, Clint Eastwood, and Luc Besson’s The Lady (2011), which tells the story of the family life of Aung San Suu Kyi — winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize — and the struggle for democracy in Burma at a time when she was still a prisoner in her own country. The number of biopics on release does not end there: for example, the adventures of Amelia Earhart — the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane — are told in Mira Nair’s’ 2008 film, Amelia; or Infamous (2006) by Douglas McGrath, with the excellent Toby Jones playing Truman Capote, recounts the writer’s investigation into the assassination of all the members of one family in a village in Kansas, a disconcerting story that was the impetus for Capote’s famous novel In Cold Blood (1966).]

Published: Oct 13, 2015

Keywords: Board Supervisor; Archive Document; Nobel Peace Prize; Audio Tape Recording; Independent Cinema

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