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Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves - The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America (Paperback)
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Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves - The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John
Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen
Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles.
Adding to the production's luster, the elite photo agency Magnum
was hired to do the on-set photography. The photographs of this
landmark film represent the end of an era of Hollywood stardom and
the emergence of a new vision of the actor's craft. In Famous Faces
Yet Not Themselves, George Kouvaros offers a multilayered study of
the Magnum photographs that illuminates larger changes in Hollywood
acting during the postwar period. Just as the industrial context of
film production evolved dramatically in the decades after the war,
Kouvaros asserts, so too did the iconography associated with the
figure of the actor. Photographs of Hollywood stars such as Monroe,
Gable, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Joan Crawford, Marlene
Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart form the basis of an evocative
analysis of the way photography gave shape to fundamental shifts in
the nature of screen acting, perceptions of celebrity, and the
relationship between actor and audience. By closely scrutinizing
the images produced on the set of one of America's most haunting
and least understood films, Kouvaros presents a new recognition of
the connection between the power of star culture, art photography,
and the film industry during a time of rapid social transformation.
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