The Cinematic Connery

The Films of Sir Sean Connery

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by A.J. Black

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Actor > Sean Connery

Keywords

Sean Connery, actor, filmography

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Polaris Publishing

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-913538-84-2

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Book Presentation:
Scotland’s greatest export. The world’s first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century.

Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh streets of pre-war Edinburgh, lay a timeless array of motion pictures that spanned multiple decades and saw Connery work across the globe with directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. And amongst them his greatest role, whether he liked it or not – Bond, James Bond.

Author A. J. Black delves into Connery’s life for more than mere biography, exploring not just the enormously varied pictures he made including crowd pleasing blockbusters such as The Untouchables or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, serious-minded fare in The Hill or The Offence, and his strange sojourns into eclectic fantasy with Zardoz or Time Bandits, but also the sweep of a career that crossed movie eras as well as decades.

From skirmishes with the angry young men of the British New Wave, via becoming the cinematic icon of the 1960s as 007, through to a challenging reinvention as a unique older actor of stature in the 1980s, this exploration of the Cinematic Connery shows just how much his work reflected the changing movie-going tastes, political realities and cultural trends of the 20th century, and beyond . . .

About the Author:
A. J. Black is a freelance writer from the West Midlands who now lives in the West Country. He has written for various online publications including The Quietus, The Companion, The Spool. Escapist Magazine and Horrified Magazine. He is the author of Myth-Building in Modern Media and Star Trek, History and Us, and writes primarily on film, television and broader popular culture. He is also an avid podcaster and runs a pop culture podcast network called We Made This. You can find him primarily on Twitter @ajblackwriter.

Press Reviews:
"Both the definitive chronicle of a movie icon's career and a thrilling overview of postwar Hollywood cinema as a whole, Black's meticulously researched and insightful volume gets to the heart of the legend that is Sean Connery."
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