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Article: Reassembling the dust: the art of biography. (Reel World).(great interest in chronicling of lives)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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WHILE MY DAY JOB IS TEACHING FILM STUDIES at Ball State University, my real passion is writing. Though that often involves genre studies, such as my recent cinema criticism text, Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference, the majority of my books are biographies. I am fascinated by the profiling of lives.
The penchant for biography mirrors a national inclination. During the last decade, the American public has been especially drawn to the chronicling of lives. This interest has been fed by a proliferation of cable television profile programming, following the longtime success story of A&E's "Biography." Moreover, A&E's hit has expanded from once a ...