{"product_id":"celeste-holm-syndrome-david-lazar-9781496200457","title":"Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age","description":"Longlisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter, Oscar Levant, Martin Balsam, Nina Foch, Elizabeth Wilson, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were, and remain, to cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lazar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496200454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496200457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/10\/2020","brand":"David Lazar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986509791487,"sku":"9781496200457","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f3a12a7-4182-4a8c-9739-e61ce397e648.jpg?v=1683283768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/celeste-holm-syndrome-david-lazar-9781496200457","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}