Jimmy

Name: Jimmy
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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A fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man. Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean revolutionized American manhood. As a celebrity and icon, he melded vulnerability with determination, sensitivity with strength, in a way that offered a bracing and-for some-threatening new vision of masculinity. His massive influence and the fascination he has always inspired are inseparable from his identity as a queer man whose complex sexuality shattered the norms of midcentury American society. (When asked whether he was a homosexual, he reportedly said, "I'm certainly not going through life with one hand tied behind my back.") Today, even though it is widely accepted that Dean was gay or bisexual, the story of his life and personal character continue to be colored by the prejudices of an earlier era and the work of often unscrupulous biographers and journalists. Drawing on exhaustive new research (including more than four hundred previously secret pages of Dean's personal and business records), Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean is a revelatory reassessment of the man and his legacy. Free from sensationalism-but unafraid to confront the difficult facts of Dean's life-it deploys modern insights into sexual diversity to transform our understanding of James Dean's story, and the stories of boys and men like him.

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Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 320
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:: 2024-11-19
ISBN / EAN:: 9781493085651
Weight:: 646 g
Dimensions:: 16/23/3 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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