New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670849510 . F/F Hard Cover. Book is hardcover in FINE condition with like DJ. Remainder marked, has price on the inside front flap of the DJ:, NOT price clipped. This is the first serious biography written about James Dean, based on many new and documented sources, and featuring never-before-published photographs. Protected with a Brodart Book cover.; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

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This is the first biography of James Dean to look beyond the Hollywood-manufactured cliché to the volatile polarities, conflicted sexuality, and childhood trauma of the person himself. James Dean's legendary status as a Hollywood icon is reconsidered in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which explores the process by which he became the electric and exciting actor who came to stand for a whole generation's feelings of rebellion. What no one knew at the highlight of his career was that Dean had suffered agonies of torment over his own sexual ambivalence and the concealment that Hollywood studio mores made necessary. Author Paul Alexander talks to Dean's contemporaries, unearths all available source material, and re-creates not only the closed and closeted world of Hollywood in the '50s but the bucolic serenity of Dean's hometown in Indiana as well. This revisionist, passionate portrait, based on many new and documented sources and featuring shocking photographs, argues that Dean's angst-ridden compliance—in public—with rigid sexual expectations helped fuel the fury and electricity of his acting. Its conclusions will be a revelation to film buffs, gay readers, pop-culture aficionados, and everyone concerned with the ethics of image versus reality.

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Bookseller: Bytown Bookery (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 151
Title: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Author: Alexander Paul
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0670849510
ISBN 13: 9780670849512
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1994
Keywords: 0670849510, BIOGRAPHY, Hollywood, Dean James, Movies
Bookseller catalogs: Actors; Biography; Film; Arts;

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