The Cinematic Connery (eBook)

The Films of Sir Sean Connery

A. J. Black (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
304 Seiten
Polaris (Verlag)
978-1-913538-85-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century.
Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh streets of pre-war Edinburgh, lay a timeless array of motion pictures that spanned multiple decades and saw Connery work across the globe with directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. And amongst them his greatest role, whether he liked it or not – Bond, James Bond.
Author A. J. Black delves into Connery's life for more than mere biography, exploring not just the enormously varied pictures he made including crowd pleasing blockbusters such as The Untouchables or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, serious-minded fare in The Hill or The Offence, and his strange sojourns into eclectic fantasy with Zardoz or Time Bandits, but also the sweep of a career that crossed movie eras as well as decades.
From skirmishes with the angry young men of the British New Wave, via becoming the cinematic icon of the 1960s as 007, through to a challenging reinvention as a unique older actor of stature in the 1980s, this exploration of the Cinematic Connery shows just how much his work reflected the changing movie-going tastes, political realities and cultural trends of the 20th century, and beyond . . .

Autor

A. J. Black is a freelance writer from the West Midlands who now lives in the West Country. He has written for various online publications including The Quietus, The Companion, The Spool. Escapist Magazine and Horrified Magazine. He is the author of Myth-Building in Modern Media and Star Trek, History and Us, and writes primarily on film, television and broader popular culture. He is also an avid podcaster and runs a pop culture podcast network called We Made This. You can find him primarily on Twitter @ajblackwriter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 16pp colour & b/w plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alfred Hitchcock • Avengers • Biography • Cinema • cinema history • cinematic • critic • Diamonds Are Forever • Dragonheart • Dr No • Edinburgh • Entrapment • Film • Filmography • Finding Forester • Finding Forrester • First Knight • From Russia With Love • Goldfinger • Guide • Harrison Ford • Highlander • Hitchcock • hunt for red October • Ian Fleming • Indiana Jones • James Bond • Kevin Costner • league of extraordinary gentlemen • Man Who Would Be King • Marnie • Michael Bay • Molly Maguires • Movies • Murder on the Orient Express • Name of the Rose • Never Say Never Again • rising sun • Robin and Marian • Robin Hood Prince of Thieves • Roger Ebert • Russia House • Scotland • Sean Connery • Sidney Lumet • Steven Spielberg • The Hill • The Man Who Would Be King • The Name of the Rose • The Offence • theory • The Rock • Thunderball • Time Bandits • Tippi Hedren • untouchables • Wind and the Lion • You Only Live Twice • Zradoz
• ISBN-10: 1-913538-85-0 / 1913538850
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913538-85-9 / 9781913538859