Constructing a Biopic Screenplay: Fictional Invention in the Biopic with Scant Evidence

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Constructing a Biopic Screenplay: Fictional Invention in the Biopic with Scant Evidence

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Victoria University of Wellington

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As a creative practice research project, this thesis sets out to write a screenplay about Suresh Biswas (1861-1905), a little-known Bengali adventurer who was a wild-life trainer and circus-performer in Europe and later became a Captain in the Brazilian army. The early biographies of Biswas, based on limited and unreliable evidence, pose a challenge to the screenwriter in terms of narrative reconstruction of his life as a biopic. While more information has become available recently, this proj...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2020

Creator

Indranil Chakravarty

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Constructing_a_Biopic_Screenplay_Fictional_Invention_in_the_...

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Cinema studies / Screen media / Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified / Biopic screenwriting / Screenplay / Narrative / Evidence / Storytelling / Scant / Biographical film / Suresh Biswas / India / Postcolonialism / th century / Postcolonial / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / Cinema Studies / Film and Television / Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified / Degree Discipline: Film / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy

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