Castaways of the Image Planet collects sixteen years' worth of Geoffrey O'Brien's essays on film and popular culture, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Film Comment, Filmmaker, and the New York Times. The topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics; from Shakespeare films to Seinfeld; from '30's screwball comedies to Hong Kong martial-arts movies; from the roots of sexploitation pictures to the televising of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony. There is ...
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Castaways of the Image Planet collects sixteen years' worth of Geoffrey O'Brien's essays on film and popular culture, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Film Comment, Filmmaker, and the New York Times. The topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics; from Shakespeare films to Seinfeld; from '30's screwball comedies to Hong Kong martial-arts movies; from the roots of sexploitation pictures to the televising of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony. There is an emphasis on 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, subject to all the pressures of financing and marketing. Many of the pieces are profiles of individual directors or actors--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 private obsession meets public myth-making.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good Good jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket shows rubbing and mild wear at its edges. The remains of a previous price sticker are present in the upper right-hand corner. There is another previous price sticker on the inside front flap. Stated First Printing. The text is clean and bright, save a small black marker mark on the top edge of the text only.
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New in Near New jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fine collection of Obrien's thoughtful and insightful essays on the motion picture industry and its impact upon popular culture in the United States around the world, individual films studied for these purposes, directors, producers, actors, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, 248pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fine collection of Obrien's thoughtful and insightful essays on the motion picture industry and its impact upon popular culture in the United States around the world, individual films studied for these purposes, directors, producers, actors, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, 248pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
