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Whether it's Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, or Robert DiNiro as boxer Jake LaMotta, films portraying the lives of real people—aka biopics—may interrogate, celebrate, parody, or mythologize a subject's life. Join Dennis Bingham, Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, for an illustrated talk about the many facets of this popular, durable, but underappreciated film genre, including the distinctions between biographical cinematic portrayals of men and women. Bingham is the author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre (2010). Book signing to follow.