Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work - Brossura

Mizruchi, Susan L.

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ISBN 10: 0393351203 ISBN 13: 9780393351200

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2015

Riassunto

When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando’s Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry.To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando’s life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout.Mizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights.More than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.

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Recensione:

"...there is much to enjoy here for the confirmed Brando fan."

-- Mail on Sunday

"Engrossing biography...Some great photos, too."

--The Bookseller

"...this always interesting, addictive book..."

--Financial Times

"Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando's eccentricities. But in this sympathetic portrait, Mizruchi plays up his intellectualism: Brando was an autodidact with a library of 4,000 books, not to mention a great editor of his own lines."

--Rebecca Rose, Best Books of 2014, Financial Times

"...this always interesting, addictive book..." -- Financial Times "Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando's eccentricities. But in this sympathetic portrait, Mizruchi plays up his intellectualism: Brando was an autodidact with a library of 4,000 books, not to mention a great editor of his own lines." --Rebecca Rose, Best Books of 2014, Financial Times

L'autore:

Susan Mizruchi, a professor of English at Boston University, specialises in American literature, cultural history and film. Her most recent work was The Rise of Multicultural America.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393351203
• ISBN 13: 9780393351200
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 469