The Phantom Empire
Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
Will be published approx. on 2. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-0-393-31296-6 (ISBN)
Description
In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.
Reviews / Votes
"Ingenious and idiosyncratic . . . a work that somehow manages to be both a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching and an extremely compact history of the cinema." -- Louis Menand - The New Yorker "One of the most eccentrically engaging books to come out all year. . . . The Phantom Empire is an elegy for reality, the screenplay of a celluloid culture." -- Voice Literary SupplementMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
401 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31296-6 (9780393312966)
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Person
Geoffrey O'Brien is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the author of Hard-Boiled America and Dream-Time: Chapters from the Sixties. He lives in New York City.