Representing popular music stardom on screen
The Popular Music Biopic
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5675239 |
|---|---|
| Autores | L Marshall (0000-0002-9243-2016, University of Bristol, autor correspondente), Isabel Kongsgaard |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 346-361 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Celebrity Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19392397.2012.679455 |
| OpenAlex | W1967347228 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 9 |
| Referências citadas | 11 |
Biopics of popular music stars have become quite popular in the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a number of box-office successes and movie awards in the genre. In seemingly offering a glimpse of the ‘real story’ behind the star persona, biopics contribute to individual star images but they also reproduce broader narratives of popular music stardom. This paper offers a brief description of some of the central tropes of popular music stardom before detailing how they are reproduced in four recent biopics. Further, the paper also discusses the popular music biopic's ambiguous relationship to truth. On the one hand, the biopic must continually assert its truthfulness in order to gain the authority that a biopic needs to be believable and a source of audience pleasure. On the other hand, however, the biopic can never be a ‘real’ truth as it is constrained by both the conventions of cinematic realism and broader ideologies of popular music stardom. In its complicated merging of truth and fiction, we argue, the popular music biopic reflects the socially constructed nature of stardom more generally
Art · Biography · Humanities · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Persona · Pleasure · Political science · Popular culture · Popular music · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Obras citantes distintas | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,69 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 9 |