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Create or Die : Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper / Stephen Lee Naish.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (110 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089648587
  • 9789048527137
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN2287.H66 N35 2016
  • PN2287.H66
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Scenes from a Revolutionary Life -- Hip-Hopp -- The Elephant in the Room -- Love and Hate -- Commercial Breakdown -- White Light/White Heat -- Double Standards -- Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography
Summary: Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue Velvet their off-kilter appeal. But his artistic interests went far beyond acting, and this collection of essays is the first major work to take in Hopper as a creative artist in all his fields of endeavour, from acting and directing to photography, sculpture, and expressionist painting. Stephen Naish doesn't skimp on covering Hopper's best-known work, but he breaks new ground in putting it in context with his other creative enterprises, showing how one medium informs another, and how they offer a portrait of an artist who was restless, even flawed at times, but always aiming to live up to his motto: create or die.[-][-]Follow the podcasts by Steve Naish here

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Scenes from a Revolutionary Life -- Hip-Hopp -- The Elephant in the Room -- Love and Hate -- Commercial Breakdown -- White Light/White Heat -- Double Standards -- Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography

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Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue Velvet their off-kilter appeal. But his artistic interests went far beyond acting, and this collection of essays is the first major work to take in Hopper as a creative artist in all his fields of endeavour, from acting and directing to photography, sculpture, and expressionist painting. Stephen Naish doesn't skimp on covering Hopper's best-known work, but he breaks new ground in putting it in context with his other creative enterprises, showing how one medium informs another, and how they offer a portrait of an artist who was restless, even flawed at times, but always aiming to live up to his motto: create or die.[-][-]Follow the podcasts by Steve Naish here

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)