James Dean: The Mutant King
A Biography
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and the product of still unequalled research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound meditation, James Dean: The Mutant King has become almost as legendary as its subject.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This hagiographic work contains an enormous collection of hitherto unpublished photos showing Dean as a child, student and actor both on Broadway and in his three major Hollywood films (East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. The text is a melange of quotations from previous eulogists and of pretentious attempts to analyze Dean's attraction. PW remarked: "Dean's insatiable fans will doubtless be sucked in by this ridiculous scrapbook's elegant layout.''
