The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Essays on Movies and Politics
Autor Jim Sheparden Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2017
The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions, in that regard, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the "high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness" captured in GoodFellas, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a "portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders' conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge," he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films--Chinatown, The Third Man, and Badlands among others--in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781941040720
ISBN-10: 1941040721
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 124 x 193 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
ISBN-10: 1941040721
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 124 x 193 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
Notă biografică
Jim Shepard is the author of seven novels, including most recently The Book of Aron, five story collections, including Like You'd Understand, Anyway--a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize--and editor of the anthology Writers at the Movies. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his wife, three children, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College.