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Jack Nicholson: Scenes Behind the Smile

Author : ChatStick Team

Publisher : ChatStick Team

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 25,78 MB

Release : 2024-06-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Step behind the curtain with Jack Nicholson: Scenes Behind the Smile, a definitive exploration of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic figures, brought to life by the ChatStick Team. This compelling biography delves deep into Nicholson's world, offering readers a unique glimpse into the life of a legendary actor whose performances have left an indelible mark on cinema. Discover the stories behind Nicholson's most iconic roles, from the unsettling charm of Jack Torrance to the devilish wit of the Joker. Learn about his formative years, his meteoric rise to fame, and the off-screen charisma that made him a fixture in Hollywood lore. 🎥🌟 Highlights of the Book: Comprehensive insights into Nicholson's early life and the challenges that shaped his career. Detailed analyses of Nicholson's key performances and their cultural impact. An intimate look at his personal life, passions, and philanthropy. Reflections on his legacy and the enduring influence on future generations of actors. Whether you're a longtime admirer or a newcomer to his work, Jack Nicholson: Scenes Behind the Smile promises a thorough, engaging, and revealing portrayal of the man whose life is as captivating as his films. 📚🎭 Download your copy today and experience the depth behind the legendary smile of Jack Nicholson!



Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded)

Author : Patrick McGilligan

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 799 pages

File Size : 33,40 MB

Release : 2015-11-09

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0393350975

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“Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality



Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

Author : Patrick McGilligan

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 30,42 MB

Release : 1996-02-17

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0393248410

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"Volatile Jack Nicholson has found the perfect biographer in Patrick McGilligan, who gives us a rich, absorbing portrait of one of the greatest movie stars ever." —Patricia Bosworth No male American film star of the post-Brando era has demonstrated the talent, the charisma, the larger-than-life audacity, and the string of screen triumphs of Jack Nicholson. In Jack's Life, Patrick McGilligan, one of our finest film historians, has produced the definitive biography of this most private and public of stars, from his tangled Dickensian upbringing in New Jersey, his formative years as an actor and screenwriter, his near-accidental breakthrough to stardom in Easy Rider, and his string of great roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Detail, The Shining, and other films that mark him as a searching, complex artist. Here as well is the often Rabelaisian life behind the smiling mask, the legendary romances and appetites for sex and drugs, the obsessions with money and control, and the perpetual restlessness.



Service with a Smile

Author : Christine West

Publisher : PageFree Publishing, Inc.

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 41,36 MB

Release : 2002-11-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781589610583

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Becoming Jack Nicholson

Author : Shaun R. Karli

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 26,95 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0810885980

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Examining eight films produced between 1969 and 1980, this book explores how the actor and the filmmakers played upon audience expectations of "Jack Nicholson" to challenge prevailing attitudes about masculinity and power. In each of these films-Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, C...



Jack Nicholson

Author : Mikita Brottman

Publisher : Creation Books

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 46,68 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Jack Nicholson: Probably the most famous film actor in the world, renowned for roles ranging from convict McMurphy in Milos Forman's seminal One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, to the psychotic axe-killer Jack Torrance in Kubrick's The Shining and sleazy private eye Jake Gittes in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. Editor Mikita Brottman (author of top film studies Meat Is Murder! and Hollywood Hex) has selected her own chronological Top Ten of Jack Nicholson's movies, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by various modern film writers. The result is both an incisive overview of Jack Nicholson as an actor, and a critical anthology of films by some of the leading directories of recent decades, including Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, Mike Nichols, Antonio Antonini, and Milos Forman, as well as mavericks such as Monte Hellman, Sean Penn and Roger Corman.



Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Author : Roger Ebert

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 980 pages

File Size : 23,70 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9780740747427

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Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.



Quintessential Jack

Author : Scott Edwards

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 26,50 MB

Release : 2018-01-12

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1476630860

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After several years of small roles and experimental screenwriting during his early career, Jack Nicholson got his big break in 1969 with Easy Rider. The next year Five Easy Pieces made him a star. Since then the 12-time Academy Award nominee has won Best Actor twice (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and As Good as It Gets). This critical study examines each of Nicholson's film roles, as well as his screenwriting and directorial efforts. Fascinating personal insights are provided through interviews with stars such as Mews Small, James Hong, Millie Perkins, Michael Margotta, Shirley Knight, Joe Turkel, Ed Nelson, Hazel Court, the Monkees, several Apollo astronauts, Hell's Angel Sonny Barger, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and many more.



The Big Goodbye

Author : Sam Wasson

Publisher :

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 17,2 MB

Release : 2021-10-07

Category :

ISBN : 9780571370269

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Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas

Author : Christine Gledhill

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 50,97 MB

Release : 2012-01-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0252093666

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This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection of gender and genre in not only Hollywood films but also in independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Working in the area of postcolonial cinema, contributors raise issues dealing with indigenous and global cinemas and argue that contemporary genres have shifted considerably as both notions of gender and forms of genre have changed. The volume addresses topics such as the history of feminist approaches to the study of genre in film, issues of female agency in postmodernity, changes taking place in supposedly male-dominated genres, concepts of genre and its use of gender in global cinema, and the relationship between gender and sexuality in film. Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.