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 ...

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

ISBN10: 1582431906, ISBN13: 9781582431901, [publisher: Counterpoint, Washington, D.C.] Hardcover First Edition 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
[Garrison, ND, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

ISBN10: 1582431906, ISBN13: 9781582431901, [publisher: Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition This first edition first printing hardcover book is in very good condition with a sticker and two stamps on the rear free end flap, and a stamp on the top edge. The pages are clean, bright and tight. The dust jacket is cpvered in clear plastic and glued to the inside covers, and has a sticker on the spine, and is in very good condition. This book is a collection of 16 years of essays on film and related pop culture by cultural critic Geoffrey O'Brien, the author.
[Voorhees, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[Portland, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[State College, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

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