Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
|
Buy Now
James Dean (Paperback)
Loot Price: R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
You Save: R53
(16%)
|
|
James Dean (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
List price R335
Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
You Save R53 (16%)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Two bios (see also Herndon below), two too many of the Hollywood
changeling who died in 1955 at the too-young age of 24, written by
a couple of authors who don't see the nub for the nimbus and as a
result fail to make the detour to the more interesting story of the
collective nervous breakdown of teenagers which followed in
symbiosis with that other crack-up - there were suicides,
pilgrimages to Dean's Indiana grave, books, a film, thousands of
letters a week written to Warner Brothers where Dean made his three
films (only one had been released before he died). Fans paid 25
cents to view the fatal Porsche Spyder and for another quarter got
to sit in the death seat. Dean's career ended too soon for us to
know what might have eventually emerged from his underdeveloped but
disciplined native talent - acting to the former farm boy was as
serious a business as getting in the crops. He'd had his first
stage success in New York, studied briefly at the Actors Studio,
was taken to Hollywood by Kazan to play Cal in East of Eden, the
film that was to set his image - an irresistible combination of
Brando and Montgomery Clift. Dean was the event of the bland '50's,
and it's those now grown-up kids who will probably be the audience
for this biography. And despite indifferent editing - Dean reading
On the Road which wasn't even published until 1957; Lance Reventlow
confused with that other heir who also died in a racing accident,
etc. - Dalton's (Janis, 1971) is the more substantial book. (Kirkus
Reviews)
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating
him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made
adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the
style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to
fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own
image and performances, and the product of still unequalled
research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound
meditation, James Dean: The Mutant King has become almost as
legendary as its subject.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.