Counterpoint Press, Date: 2002. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2002. Counterpoint Press ISBN 1582431906 9781582431901 [US]

ISBN10: 1582431906, ISBN13: 9781582431901, [publisher: Counterpoint] Hardcover First Edition First Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "CASTAWAYS OF THE IMAGE PLANET collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and related popular culture by Geoffrey O'Brien, one of our best cultural critics. Most of the pieces were 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 '30s screwball comedy to Hong Kong martial-arts movies; from the roots of spy movies to the televising of Bill 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, subject to all the pressures of financing and marketing. Several 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 obsession meets public myth-making." [jacket copy] "The book is a must-read for anyone interested in serious thinking about mass entertainment and the wider shores of cinema."--Molly Haskell. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant ...