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.
發表於2024-12-27
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作者犀利的幽默常常把我這個英語語感很差的人逗笑。指責此書汙衊舞王是毫無道理的,正因為無保留地指齣其先天的劣勢,纔錶明作者對Fred Astaire的深刻認識與敬意。
評分讀之前以為是biography,結果讀完纔發現就是一本criticism,作者是一位知名學者,全書都是他自己的分析和觀點,從各方麵著手,也引用瞭很多書和其他名人。【分析他長相和身材的那一章節好扯啊嗬嗬。。隱隱覺得作者是kelly黑唉╮(~ o ~)Y
評分讀之前以為是biography,結果讀完纔發現就是一本criticism,作者是一位知名學者,全書都是他自己的分析和觀點,從各方麵著手,也引用瞭很多書和其他名人。【分析他長相和身材的那一章節好扯啊嗬嗬。。隱隱覺得作者是kelly黑唉╮(~ o ~)Y
評分讀之前以為是biography,結果讀完纔發現就是一本criticism,作者是一位知名學者,全書都是他自己的分析和觀點,從各方麵著手,也引用瞭很多書和其他名人。【分析他長相和身材的那一章節好扯啊嗬嗬。。隱隱覺得作者是kelly黑唉╮(~ o ~)Y
評分讀之前以為是biography,結果讀完纔發現就是一本criticism,作者是一位知名學者,全書都是他自己的分析和觀點,從各方麵著手,也引用瞭很多書和其他名人。【分析他長相和身材的那一章節好扯啊嗬嗬。。隱隱覺得作者是kelly黑唉╮(~ o ~)Y
Fred Astaire (Icons of America) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載