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A short film about disappointment / Joshua Mattson.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.A8665 S56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattson, Joshua, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film critics--Fiction.
- Film critics.
- Local Subjects:
- Film critics--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Satire.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to an underread content aggregator. His job is dreary routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free of the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing on lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his reviews depictions of his troubled life on the margins. Amid his movie reviews, we learn that his apartment in the vintage slum of Miniature Aleppo has been stripped of furniture after his wife ran off with his best friend--who Noah believes has possessed his body. He's in the middle of an escalating grudge match against a vending machine tycoon with a penchant for violence. And he's infatuated with a doctor who has diagnosed him with a "disease of thought." Exhausted by days spent watching flicks featuring monks with a passion for rock and roll and slashers featuring rampaging hairdressers, Noah is determined to create his own masterpiece: a filmed meditation on art-with-a-capital-A, written by, directed by, and starring himself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Film critic Noah Body's job is dreary routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free of the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing on lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his reviews depictions of his troubled life on the margins. Exhausted by days spent watching flicks featuring monks with a passion for rock and roll and slashers featuring rampaging hairdressers, Noah is determined to create his own masterpiece: a filmed meditation on art-with-a-capital-A, written by, directed by, and starring himself. -- adapted from publisher info.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mattson, Joshua. Short film about disappointment.
- ISBN:
- 9780525522843
- 0525522840
- OCLC:
- 1011625093
- Publisher Number:
- 99978574581
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