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Loading... Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinemaby Michael Atkinson
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Short essays on film (I think many originally ran in the Voice and Sight and Sound). Thoughtful, and his choices of films to praise are often appealingly non-canonical, but the overheated prose occasionally turns me off.  jbushnell | Apr 21, 2008 |   no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0879102853, Paperback)Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that "movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society." From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery."(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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