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8%OFFSusan L. Mizruchi - Brando´s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work - 9780393351200 - V9780393351200
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Brando´s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work

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Description for Brando´s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work Paperback. A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 78 illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 41. Weight in Grams: 412.
When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the film star, the hunk and the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who used his fame to foster American Indian and civil rights. From Brando’s letters, audiotapes and annotated screenplays and books—many never before available—Mizruchi gives us a complex person whose intelligence belies the school dropout. She shows ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393351200
SKU
V9780393351200
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About Susan L. Mizruchi
Susan L. Mizruchi, a professor of English at Boston University, specializes in American literature, cultural history, and film.

Reviews for Brando´s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work
"Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities. But in this sympathetic portrait, Mizruchi plays up his intellectualism: Brando was an autodidact with a library of 4,000 books, not to mention a great editor of his own lines."
Rebecca Rose, Best Books of 2014 - Financial Times "...there is much to enjoy here for the confirmed Brando fan."
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