Hollywood & God

by Robert Polito

Book Overview

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 to today's Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022610365X
• ISBN13: 9780226103655
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.3"