VOLUME TWO OF TWO. France. Germany. Italy. Russia. Poland. Czech
Republic. Romania. Mexico. Japan. Iran. All over the world --
everywhere except in the U.S. -- the legendary Jean Gabin continues
to be considered one of the greatest movie stars of all time. In
the U.S., he's definitely considered to be a cult figure (in 2002,
twin Gabin festivals were presented at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, and at the Walter Reade Theatres in New York), but
for the vast moviegoing public, and just like a lot of the greats,
he's fallen off of the radar.
That's about to change, however, because in 2008, Allenwood
Press presents the very first English-language (and two-volume )
book about Jean Gabin, ever. (There's not even an old, out-of-print
book about Gabin in English, if you can believe that )
WORLD'S COOLEST MOVIE STAR: THE COMPLETE 95 FILMS (AND LEGEND)OF
JEAN GABIN by CHARLES ZIGMAN VOLUME TWO, which has been subtitled
"Comeback/Patriarch," covers Films 47 through 95, which Gabin made
between 1954 and 1976. During this period of his career, instead of
playing his famous tragic drifter character, he played a series of
mega-cool gentleman-criminals, and world-weary (yet life-loving)
patriarchs, and he even turned out some hilarious comedies during
this period, which are criminally unknown in the U.S. The tone of
the book is "fun," as opposed to "academic" and "pretentious," and
its goal, is to introduce as many people as possible to the films
of Gabin; to that end, this book is loaded with rare photographs,
many of which have never appeared even in previously published
French-language books about Gabin.
This is a book for Jean Gabin 'newbies' and 'completists' both:
For the uninitiated, there are some biography and 'intro' chapters
which place Gabin, and his famous big-screen persona into
perspective. For the completists, I (the author) have 'unpacked'
every single one of Jean Gabin's ninety-five theatrical feature
films, even the more than fifty pictures which have never been
subtitled into English before, so that readers can feel, by poring
through the chapters, that they are actually seeing the films,
first-hand. Excerpts from newspapers written 'back in the day, '
both in the U.S. and in Europe, show how prominent movie critics
received Gabin's pictures the day they were first released, in the
1930s through the 1970s.
In short this two-volume book is for everybody. Besides being
the first books about Jean Gabin in the English language, WORLD'S
COOLEST MOVIE STAR is also a first, because it happens to be the
very first filmography book related to Gabin in any language: Even
in France, where there have been many published biographies of Jean
Gabin, there has never been a book concentrating on each of the
actor's ninety-five films.
Brigitte Bardot contributed an original foreword to Volume Two.
(VOLUME ONE IS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY - ISBN #978-0-9799722-0-1.)
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