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"Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King's Speech and The Theory of Everything." A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282
- Author(s):
- Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- GS Drama and Performance, LLC Shakespeare, MS Screen Arts and Culture
- Subject(s):
- Disability studies, Biopolitics, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- affect theory, Cultural appropriation, Adaptation, Film studies, Shakespeare, Gender studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/wnes-7772
- Abstract:
- The adaptations of King George VI's and Stephen Hawking's life stories show their uneasy relationship to the "troubled-white-male-genius" genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of differently abled bodies: how the stuttering King George VI struggles to find his voice and adapt to the then emerging and increasingly important radio broadcasting technology; and how the physicist Stephen Hawking speaks through a speech synthesizer.
- Notes:
- https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+the+Biopic-p-9781119554813
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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