MOVIE ★ ICONS

MONROE

TASCHEN

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."

—— Marilyn Monroe

人們習於將我視為一種形象的投射而非一個活生生的人，在他們眼中所看到的並不是我，而是他們腦中淫穢的想法，接著人們戴上純潔無瑕的面具，反倒指謫我才是淫穢的蕩婦。

—— 瑪麗蓮夢露

"Forget everything you think you know about this person," Elia Kazan cautioned, in his autobiography. The icon we cherish under the name Marilyn Monroe was in truth the inspired creation of a smart, voluptuous, star struck and self-motivated fantasist named Norma Jean Mortenson.

A pure product of Hollywood, she abides across time as brightly as two other self-inventors, Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. Few things make an afterlife blaze more mythically than a sexual reputation - ask Cleopatra. Norma Jean paid a huge price to become Marilyn, yet here she is - still setting the bar high for all other would-be goddesses.

"The Hollywood 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.

"Hollywood Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous movie icons 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150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are.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.

■瑪麗蓮．夢露 Marilyn Monroe（1926/06/01–1962/08/05）

原名諾瑪．珍．摩譚森（Norma Jeane Mortenson）的美國知名影星瑪麗蓮．夢露，影歌視三棲，身兼演員、模特兒及歌星等多重身分，以飾演喜劇「金髮呆」的刻板角色而聞名，夢露象徵著五零年代普羅大眾代對於性感的看法，並成為當代最受歡迎的性感女星之一。雖然擠身高收入女星之列僅只短短十年，但截至一九六二年夢露意外死亡為止，其電影獲利竟高達兩億美元。在她逝世近半個世紀之後，瑪莉蓮．夢露至今仍舊是流行文化的主要象徵。

■F. X. Feeney

F.X. Feeney is a screenwriter and critic based in Los Angeles. His film credits include The Big Brass Ring, based on a story by Orson Welles, and Frankenstein Unbound, directed by Roger Corman, whilst his reviews have appeared in L.A. Weekly and other publications. F.X. has also written the TASCHEN's Michael Mann and Polanski.

作者：F. X. Feeney

編輯：Paul Duncan

攝影：Kobal Collection

規格：軟精裝／Hardback Soft Cover，14.4 x 19.6 x 1.8 cm，192頁

出版商：Taschen

出版日期：2006年11月27日

語言：英／English、德／Deutsch、法／French

ISBN-13：978-3-8228-2117-6

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Condition: Good. Pre-owned with minor damage at both rims of the book spine. No missing pages nor anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. All pages are intact, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. With dust jacket.

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