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Screening History by Gore Vidal (1992, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674795865

ISBN-139780674795860

eBay Product ID (ePID)469622

Product Key Features

Book TitleScreening History

Number of Pages110 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicFilm / General, United States / 20th Century, Film / Genres / Historical, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGore Vidal

Book SeriesThe William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-002912

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsUnadulterated Vidal and a small gem...On almost every page there is an observation worth admiring, whether it is about Hollywood and television, politics and history, or the paranoia and hypocrisy of the commercialized American dream., Vibrant...A reminiscence of Mr. Vidal's first 20 years (1925-1945), with a dual emphasis on the impact of films and of gossipy Washington politics on boy Gore...If the book belongs to a genre, it is the one that includes Eudora Welty's wonderful One Writer's Beginnings ., Witty and sweepingly disrespectful...Written versions of history are, in Vidal's opinion, no more to be trusted than movie versions, and a lot less memorable besides being a lot less fun...He relates history on the screen to its influence on, or by, the general concept of events, his personal experience, and his acerbic view of doings in Washington.

Dewey Decimal791.43658092

SynopsisVidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has the renowned author revealed so much about his own life or written with such immediacy about the forces shaping America. 26 halftones.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.H5V54 1992