Wild Bill Wellman : Hollywood rebel / William Wellman, Jr.
The extraordinary life—the first—of the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as "Wild Bill" (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty-two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close-u...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2015]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 640 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |
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The extraordinary life—the first—of the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as "Wild Bill" (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty-two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close-up art, ranged from adventure and gangster pictures to comedies, aviation, romances, westerns, and searing social dramas. Now William Wellman, Jr., drawing on his father's unpublished letters, diaries, and unfinished memoir, gives us the first full portrait of the man—boy, flyer, husband, father, director, artist. Here is a portrait of a profoundly American spirit and visionary, a man's man who was able to put into cinematic storytelling the most subtle and fulsome of feeling, a man feared, respected, and loved. |
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Call Number: | PN1998.3.W454 W48 2015 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780307377708 0307377709 |