The Phantom Empire
Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:2nd Jul '97
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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.
"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
- Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 1993
ISBN: 9780393312966
Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 18mm
Weight: 363g
282 pages