LEADER 04182nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910449925303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-36092-5 010 $a9786610360925 010 $a0-8135-3779-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537795 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246486 035 $a(EBL)979573 035 $a(OCoLC)804665103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000186046 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186046 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210549 035 $a(PQKB)11202954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC979573 035 $a(OCoLC)62324328 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21361 035 $a(DE-B1597)529122 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL979573 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091286 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL36092 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246486 100 $a20040716d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohnny Depp starts here$b[electronic resource] /$fMurray Pomerance 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aFilmography: p. 279-296. 311 $a0-8135-3565-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: A Trick of Light --$tDepp Positions --$tInterlude --$tJohnny Depp Starts Here --$tDepp Theory --$tThe Image Views Himself Disappear --$tWorks Cited and Consulted --$tFilmography --$tCredits --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aFrom beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990's. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window. The actor's image is studied in terms of its ambiguities and its many strange nuances: Depp's ethnicity, his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic, the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist painting, and more. In a series of treatments of his key roles, including Rafael in The Brave, Bon Bon in Before Night Falls, Jack Kerouac in The Source, and the long list of acclaimed performances from Gilbert Grape to Cap'n Jack Sparrow, we learn of Johnny onscreen in terms of male sexuality, space travel, optical experience, nineteenth-century American capitalism, Orientalism, the vulnerability of performance, the perils of sleep, comedy, the myth of the West, Scrooge McDuck, Frantois Truffaut, and more. Johnny's face, Johnny's gaze, Johnny's aging, and Johnny's understatement are shown to be inextricably linked to our own desperate need to plumb performance, style, and screen for a grounding of reality in this ever-accelerating world of fragmentation and insecurity. Both deeply intriguing and perpetually elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself. No thinker has meditated on Johnny Depp this way before-and surely not in a manner worthy of the object of scrutiny. 606 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion picture actors and actresses 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / General. 676 $a791.4302/8/092 700 $aPomerance$b Murray$f1946-$0883499 702 $aPomerance$b Murray, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449925303321 996 $aJohnny Depp starts here$92441523 997 $aUNINA