Vanessa : the life of Vanessa Redgrave / Dan Callahan

• "Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Twelfth Night, Michelangelo Antonioni's existential masterpiece Blow-Up, Karel Reisz's Isadora, Ken Russell's The Devils, Playing for Time, The Bostonians, Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending, Simon Callow's The Ballad of the Sad Café. Protesting the presence of British troops in Northern Ireland -- Vanessa Redgrave, the daughter of Michael Redgrave -- Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controversial. The biography of Vanessa Redgrave both as actress and as political activist with a critical, objective study of her life and career. The life and career of the English stage, screen, and television actress and political activist from her early performances of Shakespeare to her Academy Award nomination for Howard's End. The radiant, fearless, daring, perverse and always unpredictable Redgrave and her famous family"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Skådespelare  (sfit)

Biografier  (sfit)

Motion picture actors and actresses  -- Great Britain -- Biography (LCSH)

Shakespearean actors and actresses  -- Great Britain -- Biography (LCSH)

Actors and actresses  -- Great Britain -- Biography (LCSH)

Theater  -- Great Britain -- Biography (LCSH)

Political activists  -- England -- Biography (LCSH)

Genre

Biography.  (lcsh)

Personnamn

Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Actors

Klassifikation

PN2598.R422 (LCC)

792.02/8092B (DDC)

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