Nicholas Ray

The Glorious Failure of an American Director (livre en anglais)

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de Patrick McGilligan

Type

Biographies

Sujet

Réalisateur > Nicholas Ray

Mots Clés

Nicholas Ray, réalisateur

Année d'édition

2011

Editeur

It Books

Langue

anglais

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Format

Relié • 560 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-0-06-073137-3

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place, We Can’t GoHome Again, and Rebel Without a Cause. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles, astonishing adventures, and artistic triumphsthat defined Ray’s life, including his Hollywood collaborations with HumphreyBogart, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and James Dean;his love affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, ZsaZsa Gabor, and Gloria Grahame; his partnerships withactivist Abbie Hoffman, pornography starlet MarilynChambers, photographer Wim Wenders;and more. Celebrating, contextualizing, and examining Ray’s life and work, McGilligandelivers a milestone of film history and offers a captivating look at one ofclassic cinema’s most colorful figures.

À propos de l'auteur :
Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; George Cukor: A Double Life; the life stories of the directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux; and the biographies of the actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle) Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Revue de Presse :
"[A] portrait of a filmmaker who managed over time to upstage the movies that made him celebrated." — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

"A clear and balanced portrait of a most complex man." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[A] fascinating, formidable account of a director whose life was as fraught with complications and melodrama as were his movies.…Meticulously researched and gratifying, a biographical page-turner." — Library Journal (starred review)

"McGilligan limns the tragic trajectory of Ray’s career with insight and compassion." — Booklist

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