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

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

Author
O'Brien, Geoffrey
Publisher
Counterpoint
Language
English
Year
2013
Page
256 pages
ISBN
9781619021600,9781619022515,1619022516
File Type
pdf
File Size
1.6 MiB

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 of individual actors or directors—Orson Welles, Michael Powell, Ed Wood, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Dana Andrews, The Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby—whose careers are probed to look for the point where obsession meets public myth-making.

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