Elizabeth Taylor
The last true Hollywood diva
Elizabeth Taylor was a "diva" when that word still had meaning, before it was applied to every female celebrity with slightest bit of attitude and style. She was also one of the first actors to be raised to celebrity status by the media for the dramatic conflicts of her personal life as much as for any thespian achievements on the screen. In a time when studios controlled the news that was fed to the media about their valuable "properties," Taylor’s expansive personality and rollercoaster personal life was way too extravagant and exciting to be contained by the spin doctors of 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150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are.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.
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:
James Ursini has co-written eleven books with Alain Silver, including their Film Noir Reader series, which established them as two of the foremost authorities on film noir. Ursini has also written for various film magazines and supplied the commentary for numerous classic film noir DVDs. He has a doctorate in motion pictures studies and lectures on filmmaking in the Los Angeles area.
About the editor:
Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series.
 |
SALE! Elizabeth Taylor
Duncan, Paul (Editor)
Ursini, James Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages $ 4.99 ( Save $ 5.00! |
- Reviews (3 items)
"In this fantastic series of books, subtitled Movie*Icons, TASCHEN has produced book after book highlighting a variety of film stars that the world all knows and loves. The introductions of the books are offered in English, French, and German, for readers around the world to enjoy; but the pictures - from the stills to the movie clips - are truly what make these books outstanding."
Featheredquill.com, United States
Featheredquill.com, United States
- Clippings (1 items)
- See also (25 items)
 |
Johnny Depp Poet, pirate, libertine, alien and cannibalistic coiffeur... Johnny Depp metamorphoses from one to another with disarming ease. Always eager to push his own limits, Depp has assembled a staggering body of work, spanning every genre. This book celebrates his unique style and unconventional career. |
 |
Audrey Hepburn Amazing grace |
 |
Marilyn Monroe The iconic bombshell |