hagiopic

[Joel S. Berson]

I'm waiting for filio-piestipic.

Joel

At 8/20/2009 10:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>A biopic about a religious figure, or which treats a secular figure in a
>worshipful manner.
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>1999 _Time_ (Aug. 23):  The end product is a devoted but ultimately dull
>hagiopic [about Dorothy Dandridge].
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>2009 Pamela Grace _The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic_
>(Hoboken,
>N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
>
>A few earlier exx., perhaps back to the 1980s, are apparently findable.
>(Google Books is vague on this).
>
>
>JL
>
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