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Johnny Depp Starts Here
Murray Pomerance
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Description for Johnny Depp Starts Here
Paperback. This is an exploration of the fascination with Johnny Depp, his riddling complexity and his meaning in today's accelerating culture. Screen performances, image, ethnicity, smoking, tranquillity, 19th century American capitalism, the perils of sleep, space travel, the myth of the West and Impressionist painting are all covered. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 524.
From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window.
The actor's image is studied ... Read more
From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window.
The actor's image is studied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813535661
SKU
V9780813535661
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About Murray Pomerance
MURRAY POMERANCE, professor and chair in the department of sociology at Ryerson University, is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock and Magia D'Amore and the editor of BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen and American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations.
Reviews for Johnny Depp Starts Here
Johnny Depp Starts Here offers an important contribution to the field of star studies, not only for its unique treatment of Depp's elusiveness, but also for its author's captivating validation of the experience of watching and of discovering connections that provide him with pleasure. Pomerance's passion is highly contagious.
Michael DeAngelis
DePaul University
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Michael DeAngelis
DePaul University
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