Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879102852)

Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that "movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society." From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery."

Author: Michael Atkinson
ISBN-10: 0879102853
ISBN-13: 9780879102852
Publisher: Limelight
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.70w x 0.63d