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Autobiographical films (Genre/Form Term)

Preferred form: Autobiographical films
Used for/see from:
  • Autobiopics
See also:

Moving image genre-form guide online, November 19, 2007: (Autobiographical: work using the filmmaker as subject)

Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988: p. 29 (Autobiographical works: a personal/independent work about a living person's life or an incident in his life, made by the person himself)

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. In rare cases, sometimes called autobiopics, the subject of the film plays himself or herself: Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story; Muhammad Ali in The Greatest; Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back; Patty Duke in Call Me Anna; Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant; and Howard Stern in Private Parts)