JFK by Oliver Stone - A Hollywood Biopic?

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: The Hollywood Biopic, language: English, abstract: JFK is one of the most interesting Hollywood films which never loses its actuality because the case Kennedy is still unsolved up to now. In search of a qualified biographical film and topic, time and again discrepancies emerge with regard to the film JFK to be a biographical picture or not. Some sources list the film to be a biopic others do not. Because of that the interesting and still unanswered question, if the film can be defined as a Hollywood biopic, became the main consideration of this paper. First of all the terms JFK and the Hollywood biopic are explained separately. The different facts and characteristics are investigated on several levels which are direction, content and intention. Furthermore a definition of the term genre and a summery of the film JFK are supplemented in order to understand the different levels of investigation better. The emphasis is on a comparison of the characteristics of the two objects and as a result follows a conclusion.