ROBERT MITCHUM by Damien Love
An extremely well-written and interesting account of Mitchum's life and influence. Robert Mitchum's life touched on the films he made - he started out in Westerns, playing cowboys and Indians, and was himself of American Indian descent; he made films about the war he served in; and he made a lot of film noirs, a genre he so personified even before he was, in real life, the unwitting fall guy in a set-up orchestrated by gangsters, and baited with a blonde femme fatale. He was - because of all this and in addition to it - one of the great movie actors. The book follows Mitchum through his films and looks in wonder at what he did, finally finding that everything was 'solid'. The book contains: A ChronoMitchology: a time-line sketch of Mitchum's life and career; Chapters on a dozen of Mitchum's major films (he made 120); Chapter on his musical output; A Mitchabet: an A to Z of Mitchum with one mini-essay for each letter of the alphabet, including essays on Attitude, Beat, Cigarettes, Directors...Fights, Girls...Noir, Rebel...Westerns.
Damien Love is an accomplished freelance writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. His features and reviews on film and music have appeared in various major newspapers and magazines, including Uncut, The Guardian, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713487077 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713487070 |
| Title | ROBERT MITCHUM |
| Author | Damien Love |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Batsford Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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