Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

Author:   George Kouvaros
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816647460


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   18 March 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   George Kouvaros
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780816647460


ISBN 10:   0816647461
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   18 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments, Introduction: A Measure of Time, 1. Absorption and the Method: The Iconography of Method Acting, 2. The Star Brought Down to Earth: The Actor and Postwar Photography, 3. Being Private in Public: Marilyn Monroe’s Performance of Intimacy, 4. Acting as Labor: Picturing The Misfits, 5. “Those Who Wait”: The Misfits and Late Hollywood Style, 6. Playing with Time: The Magnum Photographs as Historical Record, Notes, Index

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George Kouvaros is associate professor of film in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. He is author of Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point (Minnesota, 2004).

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