Author

Publication

2009 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

18,250 words, Guess

Page Count

73 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3566.O474 H65 2009
  • LCCPS3566.O474H65 2009

Alternate Titles

  • Hollywood and God

Description

"Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid - hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century, from Cotton Mather and a nineteenth-century minstrel boy to B-movie actress Barbara Payton, a female Elvis impersonator, and even Paris Hilton, Polito tracks the stars, rituals, snares, hijinks, and mysteries at the crossroads of American spiritual and media life across a diversity of styles, tones, and eras. Mixing lyric and essay, collage and narrative, memoir and invention, Hollywood & God is an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Phoenix poets

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