Dangerous Men by Mick Lasalle

Dangerous Men by Mick Lasalle

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Featuring household names like James Cagney, Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, LaSalle shows how concepts of manhood and heroism changed as talking pictures came in and the Great Depression took hold. Clean-cut heroes were out, in favour of gangsters, shifty lawyers and shell-shocked soldiers.

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Dangerous Men by Mick Lasalle

Using the same mix of snappy prose, accessibility, and insider knowledge that he employed so successfully in COMPLICATED WOMEN, Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era. Highlighting such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable and Gary cooper - and lesser-known ones such as Lee Tracy and Richard Barthelmess - LaSalle shows how concepts of manhood and heroism changed as the talkies came in and the Great Depression took hold. The smiling confident hero of previous years fell out of favour, and new heroes emerged: gangster, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers and shell-shocked soldiers. They were men whose existence threatened the system.
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ISBN 13 9780312283117
ISBN 10 0312283113
Titel Dangerous Men
Autor Mick Lasalle
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Verlag St Martin's Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2002-11-11
Seitenanzahl 272
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