Giant
Subtitle: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the making of a legendary American film
By: Don Graham
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781250061904
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Giant (Motion picture)
Description: "A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Drawing on archival sources, Graham's Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film's production, showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Long story short; title: Beefcake baron; title: Tell mama all; title: Plantation life; title: Lone star; title: West of the Pecos; title: Plein air; title: Duel in the sun; title: Being and nothingness in L.A.; title: Love and marriage; title: Last days at the Villa Capri; title: Fanfare; title: Meta-marfasis.