xviii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (chiefly color) 22 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-259) and filmography (pages [227]-245)
"Critic and journalist Keith Phipps draws a portrait of Nicolas Cage by looking at the enigmatic icon's expansive filmography"
Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius. Who is Nicholas Cage, and why has his career endured for more than a hundred films over forty years? Phipps examines the films, and the man himself, to examine Cage's journey from 1980s comedies to the blockbusters of the 1990s, through the wild video-on-demand world of today. The result is a profile and an appreciation of a fiercely passionate artist