The Phantom Empire Geoffrey O'Brien

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The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien

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The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.

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The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien

In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.

The Phantom Empire Reviews

"Ingenious and idiosyncratic . . . a work that somehow manages to be both a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching and an extremely compact history of the cinema." -- Louis Menand - The New Yorker
"One of the most eccentrically engaging books to come out all year. . . . The Phantom Empire is an elegy for reality, the screenplay of a celluloid culture." -- Voice Literary Supplement

About Geoffrey O'Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the author of Hard-Boiled America and Dream-Time: Chapters from the Sixties. He lives in New York City.

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NLS9780393312966

ISBN 13

9780393312966

ISBN 10

0393312968

Title

The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien

Author

Geoffrey O'Brien

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

1997-07-02

Number of pages

288

Prizes

Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 1993

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