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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495967503321

Autore

Rosenbaum Jonathan <1943->

Titolo

Moving places : a life at the movies / / Jonathan Rosenbaum ; with a new introduction [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995

ISBN

0-520-35489-3

0-585-27512-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 202 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Film critics - United States

Motion pictures - Miscellanea - United States

Film critics - Biography

Film

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Biographies.

Trivia and miscellanea

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1980.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude: What I Did on My Summer Vacation (September 1977) -- ; 1. Plucking of Three Birds of Paradise -- Station Identification I -- ; 2. ON MOONLIGHT BAY as Time Machine -- ; 3. If Looks Could Kill -- ; 4. Rocky Horror Playtime Vs. Shopping Mall Home -- Station Identification II -- ; 5. Made in Hoboken.

Sommario/riassunto

Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies-part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and managed a chain of theaters.Starting in the Deep South of his boyhood, Rosenbaum leads us through a series of "screen memories," making us aware of movies as markers of the past-when and where we saw them, with whom, and what we did afterward. The mood swings easily from sensual and poignant regret to screwball exuberance, punctuated along the way by a tribute to the glamorous



Grace Kelly of Rear Window, a meditation on The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its improbable audience-community, and an extended riff on Rosenbaum's encounters with On Moonlight Bay.Originally published in 1980, Moving Places is reissued now both as a companion volume to the author's latest book and as a means of introducing a new generation of film buffs to this unique, often humorous exploration of one man's life at the movies.