John Wayne''s Way - Life Lessons From the Duke

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, film historian, and multi-award winning journalist. He is the author of more than 30 books on film and the mass media. Klappentext As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today.   In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies, these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fans and Western film buffs. Zusammenfassung In John Wayne's Way! author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies! these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fans and Western film buffs.

Product details

• Authors: Doug Brode, Douglas Brode
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9780762796298
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-9629-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Individual actors & performers, Biography: arts & entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism