The Ubiquitous Big
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You've heard of The Big Sleep , right? Well, it's a new century - time for The Ubiquitous Big Anyone with even a modest fetish for cultural icons from the 40s and 50s will love the way pulp fiction, fashion, media war coverage and movies are splintered and reconfigured in The Ubiquitous Big . Samuels reveals how timely that period was while he simultaneously exposes our present-day reliance upon these things as cultural and historical motifs. Samuels examines the past in order to ironically question 'what is now?' The Ubiquitous Big imagines life in the age of hyper-modernity as a play with a splintered script and countless actors, its narratives unfolding against a backdrop of cultural obsessions with iconic celebrity, physical beauty, war and conquest. Built around helter-skelter transformations of found text, film-noir dialogue and overheard conversation, this is our world seen from atop a narrow ledge between horrified fascination and sardonic humour. The result is a book of playful poetry with a serious trigger finger.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1552451356
ISBN13:9781552451359
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:Coach House Books
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.3" x 8.9"
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