Steve McQueen
Life on the wild side
Steve McQueen found it hard to balance worldwide fame with a desperate need for solitude. Through performances that were effortless yet powerful, he connected with the people who saw him on stage, on television, in movie houses, and on magazine covers anywhere on earth. Sometimes more comfortable racing a motorcycle than in front of a camera, twice at the height of his stardom he took more than a year off from movies. Despite this, and despite dying young, he left an indelible imprint. Images, his own words, and the words of others chronicle his rise from juvenile delinquent to the highest paid star in Hollywood.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
All the icons in the first 20 books of the series were voted for by over 7500 TASCHEN readers in a special online poll!
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the author:
Alain Silver has co-written and co-edited a score of books including The Samurai Film, The Noir Style, The Vampire Film, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.
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Steve McQueen
Duncan, Paul (ED)
Silver, Alain Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages $ 9.99 |
- Reviews (2 items)
"Biografías de las personalidades más destacadas del mundo del cine. Mucho se ha hablado del glamour de Hollywood, de esos insignes estudios por los que pululaban más estrellas que en el cielo, de esos actores que más que actores eran dioses...y diosas. La era dorada del cine...todo tiempo pasado fue mejor, ¿no? Movie Icons se ha creado para homenajear a los grandes del cine, a las iconos a las grandes estrellas, a los inolvidables del cine. Son pequeñas biografías visuales de 192 páginas cada una. Para cada título, el editor Paul Duncan ha seleccionado aproximadamente 150 imágenes de gran calidad, retratos a la vez enigmáticos y suntuosos, poster de gran colorido, tarjetas y raros fotogramas así como antiguas fotos de cada uno que los presentan tal como eran. Cada libro viene acompañado de una corta pero magnífica introducción a cargo de especialistas. Cada libro incluye una cronología, una filmografía, una bibliografía y por supuesto va salpimentado de algunas anécdotas y frases de películas y de la vida de cada uno."
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
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Haudegen und Herzensbrecher
SonntagsZeitung, Switzerland, September 21, 2008
SonntagsZeitung, Switzerland, September 21, 2008
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