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Hollywood & God / Robert Polito.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polito, Robert, 1951-
- Series:
- Phoenix poets.
- Phoenix poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 p.)
- Other Title:
- Hollywood and God
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing-even lurid-hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today's Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Hollywood Hills
- Barbara Payton: A Memoir
- Paris Hilton Calls on Jesus
- Two or Three Dreams About . . .
- Mike the Winger
- Please Refrain From Talking During The Movie
- Overheard in the Love Hotel
- New York School
- Three Horse Operas
- What a Friend
- Deep Deuce
- The Harrowing of Dorchester
- Confidential
- Shooting Star
- Sister Elvis
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Spicy Detective
- Riding with the King
- The Great Awakening
- Last Seen
- Hollywood & God
- Shame
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612239915
- 9781282239913
- 1282239910
- 9780226673417
- 0226673413
- OCLC:
- 432428903
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