Robert Downey Jr. from Brat to Icon

Essays on the Film Career

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Edited by Erin E. MacDonald

Type

Essays

Subject

Actor > Robert Downey Jr.

Keywords

Robert Downey Jr., actor

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 312 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-7549-0

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Book Presentation:
Robert Downey Jr. may be best known as Iron Man, but his career as an actor stretches back to the 1970s and features several Oscar-quality roles. He has worked with a wide range of innovative directors from Oliver Stone and Robert Altman to Richard Linklater and Shane Black, and has played punk kids, detectives, journalists and even a serial killer.

This collection of new essays examines, in roughly chronological order, more than 25 of Downey’s best performances in films as diverse as Less Than Zero, Chaplin, Natural Born Killers, A Scanner Darkly, The Soloist and Tropic Thunder. Including a biography, chronology and filmography, the book highlights the inseparability of the actor’s biography from his works and from the unique combination of talents he brings to his roles.

About the Author:
Erin E. MacDonald is a professor of English at Fanshawe College’s School of Language and Liberal Studies in London, Ontario. She published a literary companion book on Ed McBain and is writing one on Ian Rankin. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures and in Clues.

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