Fred Astaire - Couverture rigide

Epstein, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300116950 ISBN 13 : 9780300116953

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Fred Astaire Investigating Fred Astaire's magical talent, this book takes up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and his accomplishments. It discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, and his gifts as a singer.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Joseph Epstein's 'Fred Astaire' investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments. Written with the wit and grace the subject deserves, 'Fred Astaire' provides a remarkable portrait of this extraordinary artist and how he came to embody for Americans a fantasy of easy elegance and, more complicatedly, of democratic aristocracy. Tracing Astaire's life from his birth in Omaha to his death in his late eighties in Hollywood, the book discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, his gifts as a singer (Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern all delighted in composing for Astaire), and his many movie dance partners, among them Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse and Betty Hutton. A key chapter of the book is devoted to Astaire's somewhat unwilling partnership with Ginger Rogers, the woman with whom he danced most dazzlingly of all. What emerges from these pages is a fascinating view of an American era, seen through the accomplishments of Fred Astaire, an unassuming but perfectionist performer who transformed entertainment into art and gave America a new and yet enduring standard for style.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, 'Snobbery, Friendship and Fabulous Small Jews'. He has been editor of 'American Scholar' and has written for the 'New Yorker', 'Atlantic', 'Commentary', 'Town and Country', and other magazines.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300116950
• ISBN 13: 9780300116953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224