Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean, the three male stars of the 1950s, were richly talented. They were symbols of masculinity, yet they reflected a new appreciation of the ambiguities of sexual identities, they were the heroes of a generation of young people, but compared to Hollywood's traditional idols, they were anti-heroes. This book features the three men, revealing the shared concerns that dominated their personal and professional lives. It explores the social and cultural reasons for their emergence and ...
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Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean, the three male stars of the 1950s, were richly talented. They were symbols of masculinity, yet they reflected a new appreciation of the ambiguities of sexual identities, they were the heroes of a generation of young people, but compared to Hollywood's traditional idols, they were anti-heroes. This book features the three men, revealing the shared concerns that dominated their personal and professional lives. It explores the social and cultural reasons for their emergence and their continuing influence. Clift, Brando and Dean remain mythic stencils, against whom many people's ideas and ideals of their youth, adolescence and adulthood - images of masculinity and individuality - are patterned. They invoke American individualism, acting, politics and sexuality. They were culturally ravenous young men, testing everything that was new and exciting in the society around them. To study them is to study much of the popular culture of the time.
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Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. 8vo. 214pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or black papered boards in jacket. Jacket has some moderate chipping at top edge with small areas torn away. Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean were without doubt the three most influential male stars of the 1950s. All 3 began their careers, and became stars in the post-war years. As each reached adulthood, he was confronted with a daunting array of social, sexual, cultural and political problems. They rebelled aginst the climate of conformism in the most sharply self-conscious manner, in the most powerful medium and with the most memorable of images. This volume explores the phenomenon of Clift, Brando and Dean, and their legacy into the 1990s. They tested eveything that was new and exciting in society around them, and their explorations are shared by rebels today.
