The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the
enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features
interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer
also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly
commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary scholars,
enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical connection to
Mailer. This volume discusses the National Book Award and Pulitzer
Prize-winning author and filmmaker's six films created during the
years of 1947 and 1987, and contends to show how Mailer's films can be
best read as cinematic delineations that visually represent many of
the writer's metaphysical and ontological concerns and ideas that
appear in his texts from the 1950s until his passing in 2007. By
re-examining Mailer's cinema through these new perspectives, one may
be awarded not just a deeper understanding of Mailer's desire to make
films, but also find a new, alternative vision of Mailer himself.
Norman Mailer was not just a writer, but more: he was one of the most
influential Postmodern artists of the twentieth century with deep
roots in the cinema. He allowed the cinema to not only influence his
aesthetic approach, but sanctioned it as his easiest-crafted analogy
for exploring sociological imagination in his writing. Mailer once
suggested, "Film is legitimately more interesting than books..." and
with that in mind, readers of Norman Mailer might begin to rethink his
oeuvre through the viewfinder of the film medium, as he was equally as
passionate about working within cinema as he was about literature
itself.
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ISBN
9781501325533
Publisert
2017
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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