Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave
Dan Callahan
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Description for Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; APB; APF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 530.
Who isn’t in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controversial. This is the moment, and this is the biography, to take stock of Vanessa Redgrave both as actress and as political activist with a critical, objective study of her life and career. It is also time to account for her unparalleled achievements as an empathetic actress of considerable genius. In his Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson writes about Redgrave, “She has made mistakes, but there is a case for her as the best actress alive, ... Read more
Who isn’t in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controversial. This is the moment, and this is the biography, to take stock of Vanessa Redgrave both as actress and as political activist with a critical, objective study of her life and career. It is also time to account for her unparalleled achievements as an empathetic actress of considerable genius. In his Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson writes about Redgrave, “She has made mistakes, but there is a case for her as the best actress alive, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781605985572
SKU
KSS0005765
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About Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan, author of Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman, is the associate editor at Siman Media Works. He has published theater and film reviews in Time Out New York, Sight and Sound, The L Magazine, Slant Magazine and many other publications. He lives in New York.
Reviews for Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave
“Fresh and insightful: it’s not easy to characterise what makes a performance effective or otherwise, and critics often duck the responsibility altogether, but Dan Callahan is skilled at finding feisty, odd, intelligent ways to evaluate the ineffable.”
Sight & Sound Magazine “Fascinating. Masterfully written. Read Vanessa if you want a fully schooled lesson on the woman most of her ... Read more
Sight & Sound Magazine “Fascinating. Masterfully written. Read Vanessa if you want a fully schooled lesson on the woman most of her ... Read more