The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called 'one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.’ The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine, Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire. Over the next quarter century he created a gallery of brooding, neurotic, and violent characters in such movies as Bad Day at Black Rock, Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, and The Wild Bunch. His riveting performances expose the darkest impulses of the American psyche during the Cold War.
At the same time, Ryan’s marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona. Drawing on unpublished writings and revealing interviews, film critic J.R. Jones deftly explores the many contradictory facets of Robert Ryan’s public and private lives, and how these lives intertwined in one of the most compelling actors of a generation.
Spis treści
Introduction
Inferno
The Mysterious Spirit
Bombs Away
You Know the Kind
We Will Succeed, You Will Not
Caught
Learning by Doing
The Whiz Kids
Rum, Rebellion & Ryan
The Gates of War
Beautiful Creatures
The Longest Day
One of the Boys
My Good Bad Luck
The Loneliest Place in Town
O autorze
J.R. Jones is an award-winning film critic and editor for the Chicago Reader. His writing has appeared in New York Press, Kenyon Review, Da Capo Best Music Writing, and Noir City. He lives in Chicago.
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