- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2015
Summary
The mere mention of red hair or red-headedness conjures vivid associations. Stereotypes range from the fun-loving scatterbrain Lucille Ball, to the largely mythologized Viking savage, and from the fiery-tempered shrew or the penitent prostitute (Mary Magdalene is almost always depicted as a redhead), to comic foils and long-suffering side-kicks: Danny Partridge (The Partridge Family), Ron Weasley (Harry Potter) Jimmy Olsen (Superman), and Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons), to name a few.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781579129965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 157912996X |
| Author: | Jacky Colliss Harvey |
| Publisher: | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 162mm x 211mm |
| Audience Age: | 0-0 |
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Critics Review
“An important, fascinating read for redheads–and others–everywhere.”–Elle
“Engaging…light-hearted but erudite history”–Washington Post
“Lively…intellectually wide-ranging.”–The Wall Street Journal
“The magnetic appeal of red hair… is the subject of a fascinating new book, RED: A History of the Redhead, by Jacky Colliss Harvey - herself one of the tribe.”–Vogue
Jacky Colliss Harvey
Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. She read English at Cambridge University and Art history at the Courtauld Institute. She has worked in museum publishing for the last twenty years and is known as a commentator and reviewer, speaking in both the U.K. and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. At the same time, her red hair has also found her an alternative career as a life model and a film extra playing everything from a society lady in Atonement to a Parisian whore in Bel-Ami. She lives in London.
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