Essays
The Anti-Biopic: On Refusing the Cradle-to-Grave Shape
The biopic is a genre with a default structure, and the default is almost always the problem. An argument for the biographical films that refuse the shape.
Lena Ashworth·18 Jan·5 min
2 pieces
The biopic is a genre with a default structure, and the default is almost always the problem. An argument for the biographical films that refuse the shape.
The contemporary biopic has adopted a specific form that functions as reputation management. An essay on the mechanism by which the biopic launders its subjects, and what the occasional exception does differently.