Rethinking the biopic: Bessie by Dee Rees

  • Christelle Ringuet Université Paris 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34929/sep.vi15.248
Keywords: African-American women filmmakers, Biopic, Blues, Queer, Representation

Abstract

The biopic focuses on historical figures. The African-American filmmaker Dee Rees gives an unconventional narrative of blues singer Bessie Smith with Bessie (2015), thereby offering the depiction of a singer unafraid to publicly oppose the hegemonic system then in place, and at the same time pressing for a rewriting of the genre.

Published
2022-06-15
How to Cite
RinguetC. “Rethinking the Biopic: Bessie by Dee Rees”. Savoirs En Prisme, no. 15, June 2022, pp. 109-24, doi:10.34929/sep.vi15.248.
Issue
No. 15 (2022): The figure of the musician in cinema - Part 1
Section
Articles

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