By Shaun R. Karli
ISBN-10: 0810885980
ISBN-13: 9780810885981
In Becoming Jack Nicholson: The Masculine personality from effortless Rider to The Shining, Shaun Karli appears to be like on the actor’s on-screen presence in 8 key movies among 1969 and 1980. Karli explores how in every one of those movies, the actor and the filmmakers performed upon viewers expectancies of “Jack Nicholson” to problem winning attitudes approximately masculinity and gear. targeting the actor's picture in a string of counterculture motion pictures that spanned the Seventies, Karli argues that audiences created a composite "understanding" of the Nicholson personality in those movies.
Examining either the actor and the on-screen model of the Nicholson personality, this publication deals a desirable examine one of many significant monitor figures of the prior 40 years. Becoming Jack Nicholson will attract students of cinema, but in addition to these attracted to gender reviews, American experiences, and sociology.
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