Due for release from Taschen
Publishers in the Movie
Icons series is the 192
pages book "Elvis Presley:
The Life and Times of the
King" by F.X. Feeney
(Author), Paul Duncan
(Editor). The languages
available are German, French
and English (ISBN-10:
3822823236 / ISBN-13:
978-3822823231)
Synopsis (The New York Times
Book Review):
Elvis Presley would have
been the first to laugh at
the mad, godlike status he
attained after death, but he
would have surely identified
with the human,
gospel-haunted need such
adoration rises out of. He
shared that need, and
courted it. He could sing
and move with a spellbinding
violence and grace. Yet his
nature was also marked by a
startling passivity - an
eerily contented lack of
ambition at his essence that
kept him from growing after
his first fiery years of
success. That early fire
still burns, nevertheless,
and his mythical figure
remains an omnipresent
fixture today. In "The Movie
Icon" series, people talk
about Hollywood glamour,
about studios that had more
stars than there are in
heaven, about actors who
weren't actors but were
icons. Other people talk
about these things, "Taschen"
shows you. "Movie Icons" is
a series of photo books that
feature the most famous
personalities in the history
of cinema. These 192-page
books are visual biographies
of the stars. For each
title, series editor Paul
Duncan has painstaking
selected approximately 150
high quality enigmatic and
sumptuous portraits,
colourful posters and lobby
cards, rare film stills, and
previously unpublished
candid photos showing the
stars as they really are.
These images are accompanied
by concise introductory
essays by leading film
writers; each book also
includes a chronology, a
filmography, and a
bibliography, and is
peppered with apposite
quotes from the movies and
from life. More bang for
your buck! "...a fast-food,
high-energy fix on the topic
at hand."
Source: Amazon.co.uk