Humphrey Bogart

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Humphrey Bogart is a legend and an icon whose magic has not dissipated with time. The wounded tough guy image Bogart molded over the decades of his career still resonates. There is a truth to this image; audiences sense that the world-weariness, the angst, and the vulnerability, which made him an icon of noir as well, were rooted somehow in reality. Even if the spectator knew nothing about his personal life, they believed and still do believe in his performances in cinema classics like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, and The African Queen.

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150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are.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:
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.

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Humphrey Bogart

Duncan, Paul (Editor)
Ursini, James
Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages
$ 9.99

Reviews (4 items)

"Die Filmbuch-Serie Movie ICONS werden ihrem Namen in jeder Hinsicht gerecht: eine aufwendig und mit viel Liebe zum Detail zusammengestellte Serie von Bildbänden, die die berühmtesten Akteure und Regisseure der Filmgeschichte präsentierten. Jeder Band umfasst 192 Seiten und ist als visuelle Foto-Biografie konzipiert, für die Herausgeber Paul Duncan rund 150 hochwertige Bilder und Portraits sorgfältig ausgewählt und mit Farbpostern, Standfotos sowie bislang unveröffentlichten Schnappschüssen ergänzt hat. Begleitet wird dieses einzigartige Material von fundierten Essays führender Filmjournalisten und Autoren sowie umfassenden Backgroundinformationen zu Filmographie und Biographie."
Libro Journal, Wien, Austria

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Buchbesprechung: "Humphrey Bogart " aus der Reihe "Movie Icon" des Taschen-Verlags
dvd-sucht.de, Germany, June 06, 2007

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