Bingham, Dennis, 1954-2010-09-302010-09-301999Bingham, Dennis, "'I do want to live!': Female voices, male discourse, and Hollywood biopics." Available from IUPUI ScholarWorks.Bingham, Dennis. "'I do want to live!': Female voices, male discourse, and Hollywood biopics." Cinema Journal 38, no.3 (Spring 1999): 3-26.0009-7101https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2269This post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Permission granted through posted policies on copyright owner’s website or through direct contact with copyright owner.Complicating cherished assumptions about film biography, the fifties, and female spectatorship, I Want to Live! finds male filmmakers identifying with a female protagonist in opposition to the male institutions of the media and the law in a work that aligns melodrama with realism.en-USFemale SpectatorshipMale DiscourseMale FilmmakersWomen's Film BiographiesMotion picture producers and directorsProtagonists (Persons) in motion picturesMotion pictures -- BiographyFeminism and motion picturesArticle