Description
Book SynopsisThis is an exploration of the fascination with Johnny Depp, his riddling complexity and his meaning in today's accelerating culture. Screen performances, image, ethnicity, smoking, tranquillity, 19th century American capitalism, the perils of sleep, space travel, the myth of the West and Impressionist painting are all covered.
Trade ReviewJohnny Depp Starts Here offers an important contribution to the field of star studies, not only for its unique treatment of Depp's elusiveness, but also for its author's captivating validation of the experience of watching and of discovering connections that provide him with pleasure. Pomerance's passion is highly contagious. -- Michael DeAngelis * DePaul University *
Pomerance is the inimitable lyric poet of cinema scholars, bringing the imagination of a creative artist and the rigor of an exacting intellect to these masterly riffs on Depp's complexities and conundrums. The protean actor could not have found a commentator more in tune with his mercurial career and elusive, mesmerizing self. -- David Sterritt * author of Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: A Trick of Light
Depp Positions
Interlude
Johnny Depp Starts Here
Depp Theory
The Image Views Himself Disappear
Works Cited and Consulted
Filmography
Credits
Index
