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Castaways of the image planet: movies, show business, public spectacle

By Geoffrey , O'Brien

Book information

Publisher
Counterpoint
Year
2013
ISBN
9781619021600, 9781619022515, 1619022516
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1661054 bytes)
Pages
256 pages\273
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ART--Film & Video;PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--R

Description

One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies, to the roots of spy movies and the televising of Clinton's grand jury testimony. O'Brien emphasizes the unpredictable interactions between film as a medium apt for expressing the most private dreams and film as the mass literature of the modern world. Several of the pieces are profiles o.

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