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The Contender - The Story of Marlon Brando (Paperback)
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The Contender - The Story of Marlon Brando (Paperback)
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Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book
of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material
from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film
biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive
portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the
elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life
into view as never before. The most influential movie actor of his
era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their
craft. His approach was natural, honest, and deeply personal,
resulting in performances-most notably in A Streetcar Named Desire
and On the Waterfront-that are without parallel. Brando was
heralded as the American Hamlet-the Yank who surpassed British
stage royalty Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Ralph Richardson
as the standard of greatness in the mid-twentieth century. Brando's
impact on American culture matches his professional significance;
he both challenged and codified our ideas of masculinity and
sexuality. Brando was also one of the first stars to use his fame
as a platform to address social, political, and moral issues,
courageously calling out America's deeply rooted racism. William
Mann's brilliant biography of the Hollywood legend illuminates this
culture icon for a new age. Mann astutely argues that Brando was
not only a great actor but also a cultural soothsayer, a Cassandra
warning us about the challenges to come. Brando's admonitions
against the monetization of nearly every aspect of the culture were
prescient. His public protests against racial segregation and
discrimination at the height of the Civil Rights movement-getting
himself arrested at least once-were criticized as being needlessly
provocative. Yet those actions of fifty years ago have become a
model many actors follow today. Psychologically astute and
masterfully researched, based on new and revelatory material, The
Contender explores the star and the man in full, including the
childhood traumas that reverberated through his professional and
personal life. It is a dazzling biography of our nation's greatest
actor that is sure to become an instant classic. The Contender
includes sixteen pages of photographs.
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