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Castaways of the Image Planet: Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle
Author(s): Geoffrey O'Brien (Author)
- Publisher: Counterpoint
- Publication Date: 9 May 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 1582431906
- ISBN-13: 9781582431901
Book Description
The renowned cultural critic presents sixteen years’ worth of film criticism and writings on popular culture, covering such topics as Seinfeld, 1930s screwball comedies, Hong Kong martial-arts movies, the evolution of sexploitation pictures, and profiles of such renowned actors and directors as Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Marx Brothers. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Geoffrey O’Brien is the author of Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995, The Phantom Empire, Dream Time, and other books. Executive editor of The Library of America, he also edited The Reader’s Catalog.
