James Dean : Shooting Star James Dean : Shooting Star

Gebundene Ausgabe -  Doubleday - 1989 -English

James Dean's short life — and tragic death — and his three-film Hollywood career have made a seemingly disproportionate impact on the collective worldwide consciousness of the late-twentieth century. In this sensitive and original reassessment of Dean' s life and career, Barney Hoskyns succeeds in explaining just why the young actor has achieved the status of an icon and what it is that the image of Dean touches in so many people.

Hoskyns makes Dean come alive as no other writer has been able to do, revitalizing the shallow cardboard figure portrayed by the media and break-ing away from the customary single-minded emph-asis on Dean' s good looks and photographic charm. To complement the author' s thesis, photographs chosen from the collection of the premier James Dean archivist David Loehr are featured throughout the book.

Many of these have never previously been published, and, alongside Hoskyns' illuminating text, they reveal Dean as never before — compelling, talented, winsome, individualistic, inimitable and, above all, human.