Screening the Creative Process: Genius, Gender, and the Contemporary Biopic

Screening the Creative Processexamines how biographical films about painters and writers depict the notoriously unfilmable process of artistic creation and asks what role gender plays in the conceptualisation of creativity and genius. Through the discussion of three very different 21st-century biopics focused on heterosexual artist couples,Pollock,Frida, and Bright Star, the book follows the hypothesis that the paradigm of creative genius remains uniquely powerful in this film genre. This d...