Reading the Biopic through Persona: A Comparison between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman"
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- dc.contributor.author Andrews, Hannah
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.date.modified 2021-07-15T09:16:52Z
- dc.description.abstract Personas are the public expressions of a private identity, the performance of personality in the social world. They are particularly visible and familiar in the world of celebrity, where entertainers regularly adopt an alter-ego for performance. This has intriguing consequences for biographical representations of performers. Biopic actors are obliged to duplicate the public-facing persona, which is an already-known, semi-fictional construction, and the private individual beneath. The narrative of the biopic must account for this relationship between the persona and the person who authors it. This article explores this process in two high-profile rock biopics, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019), comparing their different approaches to reproducing and exploring the persona of their subjects in performance, style and mise en scène.
- dc.description.abstract Personas are the public expressions of a private identity, the performance of personality in the social world. They are particularly visible and familiar in the world of celebrity, where entertainers regularly adopt an alter-ego for performance. This has intriguing consequences for biographical representations of performers. Biopic actors are obliged to duplicate the public-facing persona, which is an already-known, semi-fictional construction, and the private individual beneath. The narrative of the biopic must account for this relationship between the persona and the person who authors it. This article explores this process in two high-profile rock biopics, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019), comparing their different approaches to reproducing and exploring the persona of their subjects in performance, style and mise en scène.
- dc.description.abstract Personas are the public expressions of a private identity, the performance of personality in the social world. They are particularly visible and familiar in the world of celebrity, where entertainers regularly adopt an alter-ego for performance. This has intriguing consequences for biographical representations of performers. Biopic actors are obliged to duplicate the public-facing persona, which is an already-known, semi-fictional construction, and the private individual beneath. The narrative of the biopic must account for this relationship between the persona and the person who authors it. This article explores this process in two high-profile rock biopics, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019), comparing their different approaches to reproducing and exploring the persona of their subjects in performance, style and mise en scène.
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/377125
- dc.identifier 2604-9821
- dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i16.02
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62283
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 10-30
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol 9, No 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 10-30
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 10-30
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/377125/483358
- dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2021 Comparative Cinema
- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.subject.other Persona
- dc.subject.other Biography
- dc.subject.other Biopic
- dc.subject.other Bohemian Rhapsody
- dc.subject.other Rocketman
- dc.subject.other Elton John
- dc.subject.other Freddie Mercury
- dc.title Reading the Biopic through Persona: A Comparison between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman"
- dc.title Reading the Biopic through Persona: A Comparison between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman"
- dc.title Reading the Biopic through Persona: A Comparison between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman"
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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