Dimensions
152 x 229 x 21mm
The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T. The life and career of Dennis Hopper is one of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of American popular culture.
Tom Folsom's HOPPER is a wild ride through Dennis's many lives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellows actors, wives, artists, musicians, residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he spent much of his most manic time), and many more, HOPPER takes you on an extraordinary, and sometimes troubling journey. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty farm in Kansas, watching trains go by on their way to Los Angeles, to his early time in Hollywood as one of a bright new crop of stars and starlets straddling the edge of the studio system, to the days of 1960s rebellion and the start of the independent film movement, to drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper starred in one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time-Tom Folsom has masterfully crafted a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.
