Harry Dean Stanton : Hollywood's Zen rebel / Joseph B. Atkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, Joseph B., author.

Series:

Screen classics.

Kentucky scholarship online.

Screen classics

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Stanton, Harry Dean, 1926-2017.

Stanton, Harry Dean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2021.

Summary:

Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017) got his start in Hollywood in TV productions such as Zane Grey Theater and Gunsmoke. After a series of minor parts in forgettable westerns, he gradually began to get film roles that showcased his laid-back acting style, appearing in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Alien (1979). He became a headliner in the eighties - starring in Wim Wenders's moving Paris, Texas (1984) and Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984) - but it was his extraordinary skill as a character actor that established him as a revered cult figure and kept him in demand throughout his career. Joseph B. Atkins unwinds Stanton's enigmatic persona in the biography of the man Vanity Fair memorialized as 'the philosopher poet of character acting.'

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 9, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813180113

0813180112

OCLC:

1162483289