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050 00 $aPN2287.B683$bS299 1999
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100 1 $aSchickel, Richard.
245 10 $aBrando /$cRichard Schickel.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bThunder's Mouth Press,$c1999.
300 $a192 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aFilmography: pages 186-188.
505 00 $tAge of Innocence --$tAge of Consent --$tAge of Reason --$tGolden Age --$tAge of Anxiety --$tFoolish Season --$tMoments of Truth.
520 $aBrando is the most influential actor of the twentieth century, a man who pioneered a new method of theatrical self-presentation and changed forever the standards by which we judge performance. He is also a man assailed by doubts about the value of his achievements, ever poised on the edge of self-parody and self-destruction. Out of this conflict, Richard Schickel has made in Brando a wise and moving portrait of a profoundly gifted, deeply troubled man.
520 8 $aTracing Brando's career from his rebellious middle western beginnings as the child of alcoholics to his discovery of his vocation in Stella Adler's acting classes in wartime New York, from his star-making performances as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on both stage and screen to his heartbreaking work as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, Schickel shows how Brando carried the reformist hopes of an entire theatrical generation. He also shows how changing conditions in the.
520 8 $aMovie industry thwarted those hopes, and how Brando desperately (and successfully) shrugged off the leadership role that had been thrust on him, burying himself in buffoonery, lost artistic and political causes, and personal and professional dysfunction.
520 8 $aIt is all in this book - the misunderstood nearmisses (Mutiny on the Bounty, One-Eyed Jacks), the well-intentioned miscalculations (The Fugitive Kind, Burn!), the cynical ones (Superman, The Island of Dr Moreau). But they are backed by the breathtaking comebacks (the brilliant character performance as Don Corleone in The Godfather, the astonishing self-revelations of Last Tango in Paris).
520 8 $aThis new, revised, fully illustrated biography sets the man and his films in context, drawing sharply observed connections between this life and developments in the motion picture industry, and in the social history of the last half of the twentieth century. It is a rich, witty, exasperated and affectionate portrayal of one of the few, true icons of our age. Book jacket.
600 10 $aBrando, Marlon.
600 17 $aBrando, Marlon.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00014931
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/00104000-d.html
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