| LC control no. | gf2011026089 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Biographical films |
| Variant(s) | Bio-pics Biographic films Biographies, Film Biopics Film biographies Motion picture biographies Screen biographies |
| See also | Motion pictures |
| Scope note | Films that depict lives of real people. For films in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Films à clef. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Films à clef |
| Found in | Custen, G.F. Biographical movies, 1992 (biopics) Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988: p. 31 (Biographies, UF Bio-pics) López, D. Films by genre, c1993 (Biographical film (Bio, Biog, Biography, Biopic, Film biography, Screen biography)) Filmsite.org, Mar. 16, 2012: Film genres > Film sub-genres > Biopics (Biopics Films; Biopic films (or biographical pictures) are a sub-genre of the larger drama and epic film genres, and although they reached a hey-day of popularity in the 1930s, they are still prominent to this day; biopics; biographical epics) Wikipedia, Mar. 16, 2012 (A biographical film, or biopic (biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films "based on a true story" or "historical films" in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.) Cones, J.W. Motion picture biographies, c1997. Sexual sports rhetoric, ©2010: p. 241 (biographic films on sport heroines) Min, E. Korean film, 2003: p. 42 (biographic films) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2007025024 |
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