Beauty talk & monsters / Masha Tupitsyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tupitsyn, Masha.

Series:

Semiotext(e) native agents series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Fiction.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Beauty talk and monsters

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, MA : Distributed by the MIT Press, [2007]

Summary:

Masha Tupitsyn's debut collection of stories is told through the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a childhood and youth spent on the fringe of the glittering lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s. Moving fluidly through space, time, and a handful of cinematic frameworks, Tupitsyn cuts through the cynical glamour and illusion of Hollywood to a soft, secret heart. In a precise and elegant style, Tupitsyn embraces and confronts a lineage of myths and on- and off-screen excesses to challenge the silver screen's century of power over our dreams and ideals. Intimate and intellectual, Tupitsyn's stories play with the cinema's most troubled icons and images.

Contents:

1 Diegesis (World of a Fiction) 11

2 Kleptomania 44

3 Cinematic Synchronicity 74

4 Metablondes 83

5 Peter & Pictures 99

6 Movie Men 104

7 Through the Looking Glass: Or the Grass is Always Greener in the Other Shoe 109

8 Mean Streets (Or Jacob Part II) 116

9 A Note on Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 121

10 The Truth about Noses 130

11 The Ghost of Berlin 135

12 Web Life 146

13 The Dread of Difference 153

14 Houses (Or The Uncanny Glows in the Dark) 158

15 Travel Notes (Really trying to Be Happy) 163

16 Reading is a Nightmare 180

17 Actress 197

18 Proverbial 211

19 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf's Nose? (The Reception Climate) 222.

ISBN:

9781584350446

158435044X

OCLC:

77797077