Boulevard of Broken Dreams : the Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean
de Alexander, Paul (1955-)
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New York : Viking, 1994. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 314 pages; Description: 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Dean, James (1931-1955) . Motion picture actors and actresses --United States --Biography.
Sinopsis
This is the first biography of James Dean to look beyond the Hollywood-manufactured cliché to the volatile polarities, conflicted sexuality, and childhood trauma of the person himself. James Dean's legendary status as a Hollywood icon is reconsidered in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which explores the process by which he became the electric and exciting actor who came to stand for a whole generation's feelings of rebellion. What no one knew at the highlight of his career was that Dean had suffered agonies of torment over his own sexual ambivalence and the concealment that Hollywood studio mores made necessary. Author Paul Alexander talks to Dean's contemporaries, unearths all available source material, and re-creates not only the closed and closeted world of Hollywood in the '50s but the bucolic serenity of Dean's hometown in Indiana as well. This revisionist, passionate portrait, based on many new and documented sources and featuring shocking photographs, argues that Dean's angst-ridden compliance—in public—with rigid sexual expectations helped fuel the fury and electricity of his acting. Its conclusions will be a revelation to film buffs, gay readers, pop-culture aficionados, and everyone concerned with the ethics of image versus reality.
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- Título
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams : the Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean
- Autor
- Alexander, Paul (1955-)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- First Edition
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- ISBN 10
- 0670849510
- ISBN 13
- 9780670849512
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- New York : Viking
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- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
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