Dangerous Men
副标题: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
ISBN: 9780312283117
出版社: Thomas Dunne Books
出版年: 2002-11-01
页数: 258
定价: USD 24.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Using the same mix of snappy prose, accessibility, and insider knowledge that he employed so successfully in omplicated Women,Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era. Highlighting such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable, and Gary Cooperand lesser-known ones such as Lee Tracy and Richard BarthelmessLaSalle shows how conceptsof manhood and heroism changed as the talkies came in and the Great Depression took hold. The smiling, confident hero of previous years fell out of favor, and new heroes emerged: gangsters, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers, and shell-shocked soldiers. They were men whose existence threatened the system.