内容简介
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 Village Voice,The New Republic,Film Comment,Filmmaker,and The New York Times.The topicw range from the invention of cineam to contemporary F-X aesthetics;from Shakespeare films to Seinfeld;from '3os 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 mediun apt for expressing the most private dreams and film as the mass literature of the modern world,subject to alll 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.
Most of the pieces were originally published in The New York Review of Books,The Village Voice,The New Republic,Film Comment,Filmmaker,and The New York Times.The topicw range from the invention of cineam to contemporary F-X aesthetics;from Shakespeare films to Seinfeld;from '3os 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 mediun apt for expressing the most private dreams and film as the mass literature of the modern world,subject to alll 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.