Hopper
A Journey into the American Dream
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As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture.
The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood.
Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture.
This rebel biography reveals the stories behind the legend:
The James Dean Connection: An intimate look at the pivotal friendship that shaped Hopper’s career, from his days on the set of Rebel Without a Cause to the ghosts that followed.New Hollywood Cinema: Go behind the scenes of the chaotic, revolutionary production of Easy Rider and discover how Hopper’s hell-raising vision changed filmmaking forever.Genius and Madness: Chart the razor’s edge between brilliance and self-destruction, from his prophetic role in Apocalypse Now to his notorious, career-defining meltdown on The Last Movie.The Pop Art Years: Explore Hopper’s life as a photographer and art collector at the heart of the Pop Art explosion, navigating friendships with icons like Andy Warhol and finding his place in a new creative world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Folsom, whose previous works include The Mad Ones and Mr. Untouchable, focuses here on actor Dennis Hopper's monumental successes and failures, like Easy Rider and The Last Movie, respectively, while nicely capturing the essence of other aspects of the actor's life his Kansas childhood, rehab stints, and pitch-man career in short, lively vignettes. Though it is nearly impossible to put down on paper the life of a man who was so motivated by visions real and imagined, Folsom does an admirable job capturing Hopper's manic and spirited personality in prose, as when he describes the actor's adopted home of Taos, N.Mex.: " hidden plateau, damp and lush and glowing iridescent in the hallucinatory light when filtered through the thin alpine air illuminated everything in Technicolor." Still, even with Folsom's exhaustive research and incisive perception, the book doesn't fully explain the mystery of Dennis Hopper, but that in itself is a fitting homage to this once great yet enigmatic entertainer
