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Автор: Bray Christopher
Название: Michael Caine
ISBN: 9780571216826
Издательство: Faber
Классификация:

Биографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

ISBN-10: 057121682X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 504
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 06/10/2005
Серия: Biography/Auto
Иллюстрации: 40 b&w photos
Размер: 241 x 162 x 30
Читательская аудитория: General (US: Trade)
Подзаголовок: A class act
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Michael Caine is the biggest movie star Britain has ever produced - indeed, his life story is the story of Britain in the twentieth century. Born into South London poverty during the depression-hit 1930s, Caine as a child suffered the depredations of war and then wasted his youthful energies fighting in Korea during the fifties. Subsequently he began his long, slow climb up the greasy pole of the acting trade (a walk-on in Pinter here, a bit-part with Stanley Baker there.) But following the Suez crisis, as Britains old order began to crumble, Caines gritty working class credentials came into their own through a string of mould-breaking roles: the Old Etonian who no longer believes in his power to command in Zulu; Harry Palmer, the cashiered NCO who lives for his insubordinate detestation of the upper classes in The Ipcress File; Alfie, the last hysterical macho in a culture about to be wrong-footed by feminism; and Charlie Croker, the vicious Little Englander out to do de Gaulles Europe down in The Italian Job.

But Caine is far more than just a sixties icon. Throughout his four decades as an international star he has continued to echo his countrys mood-swings: in the seventies with the Tyneside-set thriller Get Carter, a brutal riposte to the summer-of-love years; and in the eighties with the Thatcherite get-rich-quick squalor of Mona Lisa. In the nineties, this son of a Billingsgate fish porter would become Sir Michael Caine - the living embodiment of John Majors much-vaunted classless society.

Combining anecdote with history, critical analysis with wit, Christopher Brays book - the first serious critical biography of Michael Caine - is a class act in itself.

Michael Caine, Bray Christopher