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Life Writing through Texts and Images – Picture books by Celebrities 通过文本和图像书写生活-名人绘本

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.38162

Lena Hoffmann

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Stranger spaces: Embodiment, space and language in the collaborative life writing novel The Fortune Finder 陌生空间:协同生活写作小说《寻宝者》中的化身、空间和语言

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.38164

Anne Klomberg

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Making Her Case: Dramatisation, Feminism, and the Law in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic On the Basis of Sex 《证明她的观点:露丝·巴德·金斯伯格传记片《基于性别》中的戏剧化、女权主义和法律》

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37920

C. Schönberger-Stepien

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American Poverty and Social Rejection in Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya 克雷格·吉莱斯皮的《我，坦雅》中的美国贫困与社会排斥

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37913

Paulina Korzeniewska-Nowakowska

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‘Full cause of weeping’: Affective Failure in The Queen (2006) and The Crown (2019) “哭泣的全部原因”:《女王》(2006)和《王冠》(2019)中的情感失败

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37912

Bethany Layne

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Giving Voice to a Portrait: The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Law in Belle 为一幅肖像发声:《美女》中性别、种族和法律的交集

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37915

K. Sutherland

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‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction “重要”女性在银幕上的生活:简介

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37910

E. Theuer

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‘For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie’: Foregrounding and Marginalizing African American Women in the Film Hidden Figures (2016) “不管是好是坏，有历史，有书，还有电影”:电影《隐藏人物》(2016)中非洲裔美国女性的前景和边缘化

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37914

Timo Frühwirth, Philipp Bechtold, Elisabeth Güner, Marie-Theres Krutner

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What’s Whitney Got to Do with It: Black Female Triumph and Tragedy in the 2015 Lifetime Biopic Whitney 惠特尼与它有什么关系:2015年终身传记片惠特尼中的黑人女性胜利与悲剧

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37919

J. Kooijman

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‘The Great Scene That Never Happened’ – A Screenwriter’s Techniques of Blending Fact and Fiction in Creating a Compelling Character Arc in Biopics “从未发生过的伟大场景”——一位编剧在传记电影中创造引人注目的人物弧线时融合事实和虚构的技巧

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37921

Maria Hinterkörner

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