LEADER 04652nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910974565103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612788260 010 $a9781282788268 010 $a1282788264 010 $a9780299193638 010 $a0299193632 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050135 035 $a(EBL)3445089 035 $a(OCoLC)669518778 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427008 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289842 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427008 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10390029 035 $a(PQKB)11268749 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10415770 035 $a(OCoLC)747531207 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445089 035 $a(Perlego)4386192 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050135 100 $a20030317g20041996 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRemote $ereflections on life in the shadow of celebrity /$fDavid Shields ; foreword by Phillip Lopate 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$d[2004], c1996 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299193645 311 08$a0299193640 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-170). 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue: Life Story -- The Nimbus of Her Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- Problems and Solutions to Problems -- Information Sickness -- Life Story -- Life Story -- Radio -- Blood and Guts in High School -- Always -- Almost Famous -- The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism -- Robert Capa, Misunderstood -- Love Is Not a Consolation -- Desire -- The Nimbus of Their Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- The Tradition Is Here, the Memories Are Waiting: Several More Sporting Events in Search of a Sponsor -- Always -- The Confessions -- The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism -- Almost Famous -- The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- Robert Capa, Misunderstood -- The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- About the Author -- Why We Live at the Movies -- Desire -- Where We Live and What We Live For -- Where We Live and What We Live For -- Where We Live and What We Live For -- Life Is Elsewhere: A Rube's Lament -- Almost Famous -- Stuttering -- Robert Capa, Misunderstood -- The Nimbus of Her Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All -- Where We Live and What We Live For -- Problems and Solutions to Problems -- Problems and Solutions to Problems -- The Subject at the Vanishing Point -- The Confessions -- Almost Famous -- Why We Live at the Movies -- Why We Live at the Movies -- The Nimbus of His Fame etc.: Dreams about Kurt Cobain -- The One We Truly Want -- The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism -- The Cultural Contradictions of Early Capitalism: Postcards from Camp -- Love Is Not a Consolation -- Love Is a Light -- Desire -- Why We Live at the Movies -- The Confessions -- The One We Truly Want: A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire -- Radio -- Last Lines: It Isn't the Suspense That Is Killing Us -- Epilogue: How to Make a Paper Hat -- Notes. 330 8 $aIn this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator-a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image-finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him. Through dazzling sleight of hand in which the public becomes private and the private becomes public, the entire book-clicking from confession to family-album photograph to family chronicle to sexual fantasy to pseudo-scholarly footnote to reportage to personal essay to stand-up comedy to cultural criticism to literary criticism to film criticism to prose-poem to litany to outtake -becomes both an anatomy of American culture and a searing self-portrait. David Shields reads his own life-reads our life-as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes. Winner of the PEN / Revson Award? 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a813/.54 676 $aB 700 $aShields$b David$f1956-$0689353 701 $aLopate$b Phillip$0604921 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974565103321 996 $aRemote$94363960 997 $aUNINA