Dangerous Men - Hardcover

LaSalle, Mick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312283113 ISBN 13: 9780312283117

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

Using the same mix of snappy prose, accessibility, and insider knowledge that he employed so successfully in COMPLICATED 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 cooper - and lesser-known ones such as Lee Tracy and Richard Barthelmess - LaSalle shows how concepts of 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 favour, and new heroes emerged: gangster, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers and shell-shocked soldiers. They were men whose existence threatened the system.

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Review:

"LaSalle is an engaging writer who takes his films seriously but not pedantically."- "Charleston Post & Courier" "Lively . . . [LaSalle's] enthusiasm is contagious. . . . "Dangerous Men" serves as both an entertaining history and a cautionary tale."- "San Francisco Chronicle"

About the Author:

Mick LaSalle is the author of "Complicated Women" and was an associate producer of the Timeline Films/Turner Classic Movies documentary of the same name. He is the San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312283113
• ISBN 13: 9780312283117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272