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Autore |
Rosenbaum Jonathan <1943-> |
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Titolo |
Moving places : a life at the movies / / Jonathan Rosenbaum ; with a new introduction [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 |
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0-520-35489-3 |
0-585-27512-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 202 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Motion pictures |
Film critics - United States |
Motion pictures - Miscellanea - United States |
Film critics - Biography |
Film |
Music, Dance, Drama & Film |
Biographies. |
Trivia and miscellanea |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1980. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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