Ekranowe życie. W kręgu filmowej biografistyki
Screening Life: Within the Formula of Filmic Biography

Summary/Abstract: Filmic biography enjoys continued popularity among viewers. Its status, however, remains paradoxical. Filmmakers make biopics while openly distancing themselves from the formula, researchers, in turn, avoid theorizing about them. The article identifies and discusses a number of issues related to biopic as a genre that are overlooked or ignored in critical reflection. It focuses on the definition, characteristics, internal differentiation of the formula, cycles that evolved out of it, references to other genres and the cultivation of the idea of the Great Man. Recalling and highlighting those issues allows to address less know contexts of the functioning of film biography.

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