{"product_id":"robert-downey-jr-from-brat-erin-e-macdonald-9780786475490","title":"Robert Downey, Jr. from Brat to Icon: Essays on the Film Career","description":"\u003cp\u003e Robert Downey Jr. may be best known as Iron Man, but his career as an actor stretches back to the 1970s and features several Oscar-quality roles. He has worked with a wide range of innovative directors from Oliver Stone and Robert Altman to Richard Linklater and Shane Black, and has played punk kids, detectives, journalists and even a serial killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This collection of new essays examines, in roughly chronological order, more than 25 of Downey's best performances in films as diverse as \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero, Chaplin, Natural Born Killers, A Scanner Darkly, The Soloist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTropic Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e. Including a biography, chronology and filmography, the book highlights the inseparability of the actor's biography from his works and from the unique combination of talents he brings to his roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin E. MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786475498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786475490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Erin E. MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44491377737983,"sku":"9780786475490","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b7ba9b8-b639-40af-941a-3b0ef6e75793.jpg?v=1699450855","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-downey-jr-from-brat-erin-e-macdonald-9780786475490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}