James Dean Books

Evolution of the Brain and Cognition in Hominids by Dean Falk is a small published version of a lecture from 1992. It can be broken down into three parts, which are the main points that are debated about. In other words: What facilitated the initial take-off in brain size? What behaviors were targeted by natural selection? And the last part deals with neurological reorganization and its cognitive correlates. At just over twenty pages it holds a ton of information and thoughts to enjoy.

In November 1951, Bill Bast was a fellow theater arts student with James Dean at UCLA. When Dean was booted out of his college fraternity, he proposed to Bast that they rent an apartment together, which they soon did. A friendship developed which lasted until Dean's death. Bast's book is a sensitive memoir of Dean, was the first book published about the actor, and has been a vital source for other biographers since then.

Excellent book written by someone who knew him well (also a movie based on it)Great product to own!

This book contains a great many photos of James Dean that I have never seen and I have been a collector for 50 years. I bought it used and it is in beautiful shape. I am very happy with my purchase.

i love the pictures on this 2008 calender! alot of them are new and not seen in the 2007 calender!

A nice collection of James Dean's quotes thru the years (before his death). Read all about James Dean's outlook on: Romance, Acting, Cars & Bikes, Death & Glory, himself and lots more!

Fans, film historians, and even other biographers owe a lot to Martinetti's ground-breaking book. He presents a rounded, candid view of the boy from Indiana who became an icon on September 30, 1955. Martinetti's sources are the best -- Dean's friends during his lean New York years, those who knew Dean socially in Hollywood, and those who worked with him. Dean certainly made an impression on everyone who met him -- and in this book he'll make an unforgettable impression on you. Martinetti was, by the way, the first to address the issue of Dean's complex sexuality.

A smart, lively book about the morphing of a 1950s teen rebel figure into a star of international marketing. Springer uses films, poems, web sites, advertising, and small-town parades in an intelligent analysis of popular culture that reads like a novel. James Dean, the sullen Hollywood icon who excited Eisenhower era teenagers, became an ambiguous and provocative icon that spawned protest Disney movies ("The Love Bug"), explorations of sex and car wrecks ("Crash") contemporary teen rebels ("Boys Don't Cry") post-colonial ("Touki-Bouki" and "La Haine")post-human ("The Matrix) and virtual representations. This groundbreaking work is fun to read as well as astonishingly informative.

I don't know why Amazon doesn't have a picture of the front and back of this calendar. I bought this calendar because I think it has better pictures of James Dean than other calendars. But that is just my opinion.

Each month has a big picture of James Dean, and in smaller letters and numbers, the month preceding and the month after the current month are listed next to the BIG current month. There is also a smaller picture of James Dean (different from the BIG picture for that month) at the bottom with a quote by James Dean.

I could have put this calendar up in September 2004 because it has the last 4 months of last year in it. I'm very happy with this calendar. I've never had a James Dean calendar, but I'll enjoy looking at that gorgeous face and reading his thoughtful quotes this year.

Bottom line: I bought this calendar for the pictures, but the quotes are a nice touch.

This book would have to be my favourite. Great anti-climaxes and so believeable. Great setting and interesting characters. Great book