Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinema

by Michael Atkinson

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Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that "movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society." From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery."

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0879102853

ISBN13:9780879102852

Release Date:August 2004

Publisher:Limelight

Length:230 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"

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