Read Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

George Kouvaros

4.9/5 (33486 ratings)

Description:The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles. Adding to the production’s luster, the elite photo agency Magnum was hired to do the on-set photography. The photographs of this landmark film represent the end of an era of Hollywood stardom and the emergence of a new vision of the actor’s craft. In Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves, George Kouvaros offers a multilayered study of the Magnum photographs that illuminates larger changes in Hollywood acting during the postwar period. Just as the industrial context of film production evolved dramatically in the decades after the war, Kouvaros asserts, so too did the iconography associated with the figure of the actor. Photographs of Hollywood stars such as Monroe, Gable, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart form the basis of an evocative analysis of the way photography gave shape to fundamental shifts in the nature of screen acting, perceptions of celebrity, and the relationship between actor and audience. By closely scrutinizing the images produced on the set of one of America’s most haunting and least understood films, Kouvaros presents a new recognition of the connection between the power of star culture, art photography, and the film industry during a time of rapid social transformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America. To get started finding Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0816647461

Description: The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles. Adding to the production’s luster, the elite photo agency Magnum was hired to do the on-set photography. The photographs of this landmark film represent the end of an era of Hollywood stardom and the emergence of a new vision of the actor’s craft. In Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves, George Kouvaros offers a multilayered study of the Magnum photographs that illuminates larger changes in Hollywood acting during the postwar period. Just as the industrial context of film production evolved dramatically in the decades after the war, Kouvaros asserts, so too did the iconography associated with the figure of the actor. Photographs of Hollywood stars such as Monroe, Gable, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart form the basis of an evocative analysis of the way photography gave shape to fundamental shifts in the nature of screen acting, perceptions of celebrity, and the relationship between actor and audience. By closely scrutinizing the images produced on the set of one of America’s most haunting and least understood films, Kouvaros presents a new recognition of the connection between the power of star culture, art photography, and the film industry during a time of rapid social transformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America. To get started finding Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

More Books

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors)

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors)

Where Does It Happen: John Cassavetes And Cinema At The Breaking Point

Where Does It Happen: John Cassavetes And Cinema At The Breaking Point

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors) by Kouvaros George (2008-05-23) Paperback

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors) by Kouvaros George (2008-05-23) Paperback

Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema

Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors) by George Kouvaros (2008-05-23)

Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors) by George Kouvaros (2008-05-23)

The old Greeks : cinema, photography, migration

The old Greeks : cinema, photography, migration

Patrimonies: Essays on Generational Thinking

Patrimonies: Essays on Generational Thinking

Patrimonies

Patrimonies