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De Niro : a life / Shawn Levy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307716781 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 600 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | De Niro, Robert. Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 791.43028092 DeNir-L | 31681002492957 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A behind-the-scenes portrait of the Academy Award-winning film icon offers particular insights into his early years and family background, drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues to trace his artistic evolution and the apparent disconnect between his real and on-screen personalities. 40,000 first printing. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the film icon offers insights into his early years and family background, drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues to trace his artistic evolution and the apparent disconnect between his real and on-screen personalities. - Book News
Levy covers Robert De Niro's life and times in this unauthorized, yet meticulously researched, biography. He traces De Niro's life from the son of a celebrated artist to an emerging artist himself, to his unparalleled talent in the seventies and eighties, to his later works suck as Meet the Fockers that many young people know him for today. Levy sources extensively from research and production materials, and talks to a plethora of De Niro's friends and associates. The text covers all of De Niro's professional work, including stage, screen, and production credits. Two sections of color plates showing De Niro on the job and at certain gala events, are included. Levy delves into De Niro's private life as well, recounting his marriages and family matters. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Random House, Inc.
REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON
Thereâs little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact,the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled.Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull all dazzled moviegoers and critics alike, displaying a talent the likes of which had rarely--if ever--been seen. De Niro became known for his deep involvement in his characters, assuming that role completely into his own life, resulting in extraordinary, chameleonic performances.
Yet little is known about the off-screen De Niro--he is an intensely private man, whose rare public appearances are often marked by inarticulateness and palpable awkwardness. It can be almost painful to watch at times, in powerful contrast to his confident movie personae. In this elegant and compelling biography, bestselling writer Shawn Levy writes of these many De Niros--the characters and the man--seeking to understand the evolution of an actor who once dove deeply into his roles as if to hide his inner nature, and who now seemingly avoids acting challenges, taking roles which make few apparent demands on his overwhelming talent. Following De Niro's roots as the child of artists (his father, the abstract painter Robert De Niro Sr., was widely celebrated) who encouraged him from an early age to be independent of vision and spirit, to his intense schooling as an actor, the rise of his career, his marriages, his life as a father, restauranteur, and businessman, and, of course, his current movie career, Levy has written a biography that reads like a novel about a character whose inner turmoil takes him to heights of artistry. His many friendships with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Francis Ford Coppola, among many others, are woven into this extraordinary portrait of DeNiro the man and the artist, also adding a depth of understanding not before seen.
Levy has had unprecedented access to De Niro's personal research and production materials, creating a new impression of the effort that went into the actor's legendary performances. The insights gained from DeNiroâs intense working habits shed new perspective on DeNiroâs thinking and portrayals and are wonderful to read. Levy also spoke to De Niro's collaborators and friends to depict De Niro's transition from an ambitious young man to a transfixing and enigmatic artist and cultural figure.
Shawn Levy has written a truly engaging, insightful, and entertaining portrait of one of the most wonderful film artists of our time, a book that is worthy of such a great talent.
