From the pleasant-faced Herbert Pocket in Lean's Great Expectations to the Brahmin Professor Godbole in Lean's A Passage to India, from The Man in the White Suit to Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)-from genocidal mass murderer to gentle pope-Alec Guinness has defined screen acting. This book is essentially in three parts: a biographical section, detailed analyses of his 43 films, and a complete filmography (casts, credits, awards and honors). Wonderful photographs
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"Informative...straightforward" -- -Booklist/RBB
"Superior to the [competition]" -- -Films in Review
"Well-researched and engrossing study...abundantly illustrated...insightful biography...detailed" -- -Cinema Canada --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Superior to the [competition]" -- -Films in Review
"Well-researched and engrossing study...abundantly illustrated...insightful biography...detailed" -- -Cinema Canada --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Widely published in the reference and science fiction fields, Kenneth Von Gunden teaches fiction and nonfiction at the Pennsylvania State University in State College. He is also the author of Flights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films (2001 [1989], $20).
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