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- ISBN
- 1501325507
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- 9781501325502
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- The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film Is Like Death
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1501325507
ISBN-13
9781501325502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234753012
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Cinema of Norman Mailer : Film Is like Death
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Authorship, American / General, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2017-006923
TitleLeading
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Reviews
Bozung's collection represents a major advance in our understanding of Mailer's films--their origins, creation, reception, relationship to his literary work, and enduring influence. His assiduous archival work, communication with almost everyone alive involved with Mailer's filmmaking, the collection of previously published essays (including Mailer's), and the commissioning of new ones, plus an extraordinary collection of photographs, makes The Cinema of Norman Mailer the definitive volume on Mailer's film career., "You can bet there will never be another book on the films of Norman Mailer. This always intelligent look back at the despised movie career of this famously talented writer is made all the more astonishing by the collected essays' honesty, respect and attempt at historical context. Reading about these movies is way more fun than actually seeing them and even Norman might agree." -- John Waters, Director and Screenwriter, USA "Bozung's collection represents a major advance in our understanding of Mailer's films-their origins, creation, reception, relationship to his literary work, and enduring influence. His assiduous archival work, communication with almost everyone alive involved with Mailer's filmmaking, the collection of previously published essays (including Mailer's), and the commissioning of new ones, plus an extraordinary collection of photographs, makes The Cinema of Norman Mailer the definitive volume on Mailer's film career." -- J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and Emeritus Professor of English, Wilkes University, USA "Because of this thorough, eclectic, and nuanced text, I now feel as if I could do a better job teaching Mailer as a filmmaker and communicate a more critical and contextualized understanding of Mailer's process and product. Now, after reading this comprehensive collection of memoirs, essays, and interviews-one that, I might add, will appeal to the enthusiast as well as undergraduate and graduate students-I feel as if I actually might be able to do Mailer justice as a filmmaker in the classroom. Now, instead of thinking about Mailer as a writer who pushed the boundaries of all the genres he worked in, thanks to Bozung's collection, I have a broader understanding of Norman Mailer and his cultural legacy." -- Norman Mailer Review, "...this is an illuminating, long overdue reassessment of Mailer's cinematic endeavors." - Shock Cinema Magazine "Because of this thorough, eclectic, and nuanced text, I now feel as if I could do a better job teaching Mailer as a filmmaker and communicate a more critical and contextualized understanding of Mailer's process and product. Now, after reading this comprehensive collection of memoirs, essays, and interviews--one that, I might add, will appeal to the enthusiast as well as undergraduate and graduate students--I feel as if I actually might be able to do Mailer justice as a filmmaker in the classroom. Now, instead of thinking about Mailer as a writer who pushed the boundaries of all the genres he worked in, thanks to Bozung's collection, I have a broader understanding of Norman Mailer and his cultural legacy." - Norman Mailer Review, Because of this thorough, eclectic, and nuanced text, I now feel as if I could do a better job teaching Mailer as a filmmaker and communicate a more critical and contextualized understanding of Mailer's process and product. Now, after reading this comprehensive collection of memoirs, essays, and interviews--one that, I might add, will appeal to the enthusiast as well as undergraduate and graduate students--I feel as if I actually might be able to do Mailer justice as a filmmaker in the classroom. Now, instead of thinking about Mailer as a writer who pushed the boundaries of all the genres he worked in, thanks to Bozung's collection, I have a broader understanding of Norman Mailer and his cultural legacy., You can bet there will never be another book on the films of Norman Mailer. This always intelligent look back at the despised movie career of this famously talented writer is made all the more astonishing by the collected essays' honesty, respect and attempt at historical context. Reading about these movies is way more fun than actually seeing them and even Norman might agree., "Because of this thorough, eclectic, and nuanced text, I now feel as if I could do a better job teaching Mailer as a filmmaker and communicate a more critical and contextualized understanding of Mailer's process and product. Now, after reading this comprehensive collection of memoirs, essays, and interviews--one that, I might add, will appeal to the enthusiast as well as undergraduate and graduate students--I feel as if I actually might be able to do Mailer justice as a filmmaker in the classroom. Now, instead of thinking about Mailer as a writer who pushed the boundaries of all the genres he worked in, thanks to Bozung's collection, I have a broader understanding of Norman Mailer and his cultural legacy." - Norman Mailer Review
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Yes
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Foreword 1. Introduction: Mailer's Film Aesthetics Justin Bozung (Independent Researcher, USA) 2. Some Dirt in the Talk Norman Mailer (Esquire, 1967) 3. Visualizing Being and Nothingness: Mailer Meets Godot Justin Bozung (Independent Researcher, USA) 4. Mailer Interrogates Machismo: Self-Reflexive Commentary in Wild 90 and Why Are We in Vietnam? Maggie McKinley (Harper College, USA) 5. Transcending the Formula: Beyond the Law and the Old-Fashioned Cop Movie Kenneth Jurkiewicz (Central Michigan University, USA) 6. All of us are Policemen, All of us are Criminals: Discovering Dostoevsky in a Re-evalution of Beyond the Law Catriona McAvoy (University of the Arts London, UK) 7. A Course in Film-Making Norman Mailer (Esquire, 1967) 8. The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone Sarah Bishop (The Mailer Review, 2012) 9. Maidstone: The Unilinear Abstract John D'Amico (Filmmaker, USA) 10. Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality Gary D. Rhodes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 11. Mailer's Movie Maja and the Dark Lady Revealed Lee Roscoe (Actress) 12. Over Exposed: My First Taste of Film-making Michael Mailer (Producer) 13. Norman Mailer Joseph Gelmis (Newsday, 1970) 14. Mailer, Godard, and Company David Sterritt (Film Critic) 15. Dance Of A Tough Guy Michael Ventura (Novelist and Screenwriter) 16. Pulp Fiction in Provincetown James Emmett Ryan (Auburn University, USA) 17. Paradise Lost: Norman Mailer and American Purgatory David Masciotra (University of St. Francis, USA) 18. Tough Guys Don't Dance and The Cinema of Reaganism Scott Duguid (University of Edinburgh, UK) 19. Norman Mailer's "Windows" John Bailey A.S.C. (Cinematographer) Contributors Table of Contents Index
Synopsis
The first anthology on Norman Mailer's film career, including new and never before published essays, interviews, photographs and critiques., The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary scholars, enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical connection to Mailer. This volume discusses the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and filmmaker's six films created during the years of 1947 and 1987, and contends to show how Mailer's films can be best read as cinematic delineations that visually represent many of the writer's metaphysical and ontological concerns and ideas that appear in his texts from the 1950s until his passing in 2007. By re-examining Mailer's cinema through these new perspectives, one may be awarded not just a deeper understanding of Mailer's desire to make films, but also find a new, alternative vision of Mailer himself. Norman Mailer was not just a writer, but more: he was one of the most influential Postmodern artists of the twentieth century with deep roots in the cinema. He allowed the cinema to not only influence his aesthetic approach, but sanctioned it as his easiest-crafted analogy for exploring sociological imagination in his writing. Mailer once suggested, "Film is legitimately more interesting than books..." and with that in mind, readers of Norman Mailer might begin to rethink his oeuvre through the viewfinder of the film medium, as he was equally as passionate about working within cinema as he was about literature itself.
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.M320425C56
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- 4***u (301)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExcellent condition. I expected a book of recipes for grilling and not so much on how to grill. Not the seller’s fault but the author’s.
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