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Bibliography of books/articles about Oliver Stone
- Anderson, Carolyn.
- "Biographical Film." In: A Handbook of American Film Genres. Ed. Wes D. Gehring. pp: 331-51. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988.
- --Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.H3351 1988
- -- Doe Refe PN1993.5.U6.H3351 1988 Non-circulating
- --Moffitt Refe PN1993.5.U6.H3351 1988
- Anderson, Carolyn and Lupo, John
- "Hollywood lives: the state of the biopic at the turn of the century." In: Genre and contemporary Hollywood / edited by Steve Neale. London: BFI Publishing, 2002.
- --Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.G46 2002
- Atkinson, Michael
- "Long black limousine: rock biopics." In: Ghosts in the machine: speculating on the dark heart of pop cinema / by Michael Atkinson. 1st Limelight ed. New York: Limelight Editions, 1999.
- --Main Stack PN1995.A775 1999
- Bell, Alana.
- "Biopic bibliography." Biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly (23:1) [Winter 2000] , p.212-222.
 UCB users only
- Bergan, Ronald
- "Whatever happened to the biopic?" Films & Filming nr 346 (July 1983); p 21-22.
- Survey of the range of biopics.
- Bingham, Dennis.
- 'I Do Want To Live!': Female Voices, Male Discourse, and Hollywood Biopics." Cinema
Journal. 38(3):3-26. 1999 Spring
- UCB users only
- Challenges the assumptions about fifties film biographies and explores how "I want to live" finds male filmmakers identifying with a female protagonist in opposition to male institutions.
- Coppola, Don.
- "Bringing Historical Characters to Life: An Interview with Stephen J. Rivele." Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema. 27 (2): 16-19. 2002 Spring.
- Bruss, Elizabeth W.
- "Eye for I: making and unmaking autobiography in film." In: Autobiography, essays theoretical and critical / edited by James Olney Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1980
- --Main Stack CT25.A951 1980
- --Moffitt CT25.A95
- Ciment, Michel (ed. and introd.)
- "La Biographie filmée."
Positif: Revue Mensuelle de Cinema, vol. 540, pp. 80-110, February 2006
- Crawford, T. Hugh.
- "Glowing Dishes: Radium, Marie Curie, And Hollywood." Biography 2000 23(1): 71-89.
- "Discusses the cultural power of images of science and scientists produced by film biography. Using Mervyn LeRoy's Madame Curie (1943) as an example, the author charts the remarkable symmetry between some feminist critiques of science and some versions of feminist film theory of the 1990's, particularly in relation to notions of enlightenment, objectification, and identity." [America: History and Life]
- Custen, George F.
- Bio/pics : how Hollywood constructed public history New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1992.
- --MAIN: PN1995.9.B55 C87 1992
- --MOFF: PN1995.9.B55 C87 1992
- Custen, George F.
- "Making History." In: The Historical film: history and memory in media / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2001. Rutgers depth of field series.
- --Main Stack PN1995.9.H5.H59 2001
- Custen, George F.
- "The Mechanical Life in the Age of Human Reproduction: American Biopics, 1961-1980." Biography 23.1 (2000) 127-159
- UC users only
- Custen, George F.
- "Night and day. Cole Porter, Warner Bros., and the re-creation of a life."Cineaste Vol XIX nr 2-3 (1992); p 42-44
- On how the biographical film "Night and day" idealized Cole Porter's life and ignored his homosexuality.
- Custen, George F.
- "The mechanical life in the age of human reproduction: American biopics, 1961-1980." Biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly (23:1) [Winter 2000] , p.127-159.
- UC users only
- Custen, George F.
- Bio/pics: how Hollywood constructed public history New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1992.
- --Main Stack PN1995.9.B55.C87 1992
- --Moffitt PN1995.9.B55.C87 1992
- Davis, Natalie Zemon.
- "Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead': Film and the Challenge of Authenticity." Yale Review 76.4 (Summer 1987): 457-82.
- Dixon, Simon
- "Picture perfect: artist stereotypes in film."
Art Papers v. 22 no. 6 (November/December 1998) p. 32-3
- "Artist stereotypes in motion pictures are discussed. The writer discusses a number of artist biopics, from Peter Watkins's Edvard Munch (1976) to John Maybury's Love is the Devil--Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998). He observes that whereas the artist biopic that teaches much about painting itself is rare, fully fictional movies, in which the prosaic facts of the artist's life can be ignored altogether, have the greatest tendency to stereotype the artist." [Art Index]
- Doherty, Thomas
- "Sex, half-truths and videotape: "Auto focus" and "Confessions of a dangerous mind"." Cineaste Vol XXVIII nr 2 (Spring 2003); p 10-13
- Looks at the new breed of biopics which center on television celebrities and examines the lives of Bob Crane and Chuck Barris who are the subjects of "Auto focus" and "Confessions of a dangerous mind".
- Eaton, Michael
- Bugsy and Clyde." Sight & Sound Vol I nr 11 (Mar 1992); p 4
- "Notes on biographical films, with particular reference to "Bugsy".
- Elsaesser, Thomas
- Film history as social history: The Dieterle/Warner Brothers bio-pic."Wide Angle Vol VIII nr 2 (1986); p 15-31
- Argues that the social in cinema is always 'imaginary' with special reference to the Warner Brothers biopics directed by William Dieterle.
- Fischer, Lucy.
- "Marlene: Modernity, Mortality, and the Biopic." Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23(1):193-211. 2000 Winter
- UC users only
- "One of the major genres in Hollywood is the so-called biopic, and, frequently, such films have focused on the life of a well-known actress: Gertrude Lawrence, Frances Farmer, or Susan Hayward, for instance. Just as cinema has reworked genres like the Western and the musical (in films like Silverado or Pennies from Heaven), so the biopic is subject to modernist or postmodernist elaboration. This is the project of Maximilian Schell's experimental biopic Marlene (1983), which seeks to examine the life and career of Marlene Dietrich. Frustrating Schell's desire, however, is the fact that, although she commissioned the film, Dietrich refused to appear in it, leaving the filmmaker-biographer to deal with only photographs and archival film footage. Nonetheless, this highly self-reflexive work raises questions about the nature of biography, the relationship between cinema and death, and the ontology of the film medium." [America: History and Life]
- Freeman, J.
- "Biographical films." Theatre Arts v. 25 (December 1941) p. 900-6
- Gabara, Rachel.
- From split to screened selves : French and Francophone autobiography in the third person
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- --MAIN: PQ307.A65 G33 2006; View current status of this item
- --Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006004626.html
- Gomez, J.
- "'Mahler' and the methods of Ken Russell's films on composers." Velvet Light Trap nr 14 (Winter 1975); p 45-50
- The use of music and the musical structures of Russell's biographical films.
- Gustafson, Richard.
- "The Vogue of the Screen Biography." Film and History 3.3 (1977): 49-54.
- Halberstam, Judith
- "Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography." In: Passing: identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion / edited by Maria Carla Sanchez and Linda Schlossberg. New York: New York University Press, c2001. Sexual cultures.
- --Main Stack HM1068.P37 2001
- Hanson, Cynthia A.
- "The Hollywood Musical Biopic and the Regressive Performer." Wide Angle-A Quarterly
Journal of Film History Theory & Criticism. 10(2):15-23. 1988
- Reveals how biographical films of musicians create a certain kind of sympathy for the main characters, using as examples "La bamba", "Sweet dreams" and "The Buddy Holly story".
- Hoberman, J.
- "Heroes and memories."Sight & Sound Vol III nr 3 (Mar 1993); p 6-9
- Analysis of Hollywood's 1990's tendency to produce films based on historical events in the 1960's which mythologise the events and their protagonists, e.g. "Hoffa", "JFK" and "Malcolm X".
- Karsten, Eileen
- From real life to reel life: a filmography of biographical films
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
- --Media Center PN1995.9.B55.K37 1993
- --Doe Refe PN1995.9.B55.K37 1993Biographies)
- Kolker, Robert Phillip
- "Ken Russell's biopics: grander and gaudier." Film Comment Vol IX nr 3 (May-June 1973); p 42-45
- Discussion of the style of K.R.'s films.
- Levasseur, Audrey
- "Film and Video Self-Biographies." Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23(1):176-92. 2000 Winter
- Lavery, David
- "Functional and dysfunctional autobiography: Hope and glory and Distant voices, still lives." Film Criticism Vol XV nr 1 (Fall 1990); p 39-48
Abstract: On the differing approach towards autobiography of "Hope and glory" and "Distant voices, still lives".
- Levy, Lisa.
- "Storytelling: great love and great work in the biopic." Radical Society: Review of Culture & Politics, July 2002 v29 i2 p87-101
- UC users only
- Lisa Levy discusses biography in film, an every era tells inspiring stories about extraordinary people. Biopics, or biographic films have both love and work as their themes and it is difficult to estimate whether an audience prefers a love story or a work story.
- Linville, Susan E., (Susan Elizabeth)
- Feminism, film, fascism: women's auto/biographical film in postwar Germany / Susan E. Linville. 1st University of Texas Press ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
- -- UCB Main PN1993.5.G3 L56 1998
- Lyons, Charles.
- "Hollywood takes up art history with biopics." Variety 376 Oct 11/17 (1999): 10.
- Magny, Joël
- "William Dieterle's "biopics"." Cahiers du Cinéma nr 532 (Feb 1999); p 10
- On the biographical films of William Dieterle.
- Man, Glenn (ed.).
- "The Biopic." Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23(1). 2000 Winter
- UC users only
- Millard, Kathryn
- "Projected lives: a meditation on biography and cinematic space." In: Screening the past : film and the representation of history / edited by Tony Barta. p. 231-37 Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- --Main Stack PN1995.2 .S38 1998
- Miller, Robert Milton
- Star myths: show business biographies on film Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983.
- --Main Stack PN1995.9.E77.M5 1983
- Murphy, A. Mary
- "Model Lives: The Social Value of Filmed Arts Lives." Kinema, Spring 2004
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- Oliver, Charles
- "That's life." (biographical motion pictures)(Column) Reason, April 1993 v24 n11 p56(2)
- "The biographical film, or biopic, used to be an important part of the studion system in Hollywood, CA, between 1927 and 1960. However, the biopic has suffered from overexposure on television between 1960 and 1990. Some of the recent attempts in biographical films are analyzed." [Expanded Academic Index]
- Robards, Brooks.
- "Reel Art: Excursions into the Biopic, Mystery/Suspense, Melodrama and Movies in the Eighties." In: Beyond the stars / edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller. pp: 106-20. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1990
- --Main Stack PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990 Library has: v.[1]-5 (c1990-c1996)
- --Moffitt PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990 Library has: v.[1]-5 (c1990-c1996)
- Rose, Cynthia; Thompson, Ben.
- "The Riddle of the Rock Biopic." Sight & Sound. 3(10):14-17. 1993 Oct
- On the varied successes of films representing the world of rock music, referring esp. to "What's love got to do with it".
- Schiavi, Michael R.
- "American Fabulous and the Re-Filming of Male Biography."Quarterly Review of Film & Video. 18(1):53-61. 2001 Jan
- Schonberg, H.C.
- "Film lives of great composers." Harper's Magazine v. 242 (April 1971) p. 110+
- Shor, F.
- "Biographical moments in the written and cinematic text: deconstructing the legends of Joe Hill and [...]." Film & History Vol XIV nr 3 (Sept 1984); p 61-68
- Compares written biographies of Joe Hill and Buffalo Bill with their portrayal in "Joe Hill" and "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" respectively.
- Sinyard, Neil
- "Bio-pics: the literary life on film."
In: Filming literature : the art of screen adaptation p. 143-55
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1986.
- --Moffitt PN1997.85 .S5 1986
- Spear, Thomas C. (ed. and introd.).
- "Autobiographical Que(e)ries." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. 15(1):1-165. 2000 Summer
- Stevens, Michael G.
- Reel portrayals : the lives of 640 historical persons on film, 1929 through 2001
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003.
- --MAIN: PN1995.9.B55 S74 2003
- Thomson, David.
- "The Invasion of the 'Real' People." Sight and Sound 47.1 (Winter 1977-1978): 18-22.
- Tibbetts, John C.
- "The lyre of light." Film Comment Vol XXVIII nr 1 (Jan-Feb 1992); p 66-68,71,73
- Examines the effect of social and political forces on biographical films about composers.
- Tibbetts, John C.
- Composers in the movies : studies in musical biography New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
- --MAIN: PN1995.9.C553 T53 2005
- --Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004689.html)
- Welsh, James M.
- "Hollywood 'Faction' and the New Biofantasy." Studies in Popular Culture 15.2 (1993): 57-66.
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