Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbingāeven luridāhallucination. 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 of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing tantalizingly on the silver screen. 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.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2009Print ISBN
9780226103655
9780226673394
eBook ISBN
9780226673417
Table of contents
- C o n t e n t s
- Acknowledgments
- Hollywood Hills
- Barbara Payton: A Memoir
- Paris Hilton Calls on Jesus
- Two or Three Dreams About . . .
- Mike the Winger
- Please Refrain From Talking During The Movie
- Overheard in the Love Hotel
- New York School
- Three Horse Operas
- What a Friend
- Deep Deuce
- The Harrowing of Dorchester
- Confidential
- Shooting Star
- Sister Elvis
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Spicy Detective
- Riding with the King
- The Great Awakening
- Last Seen
- Hollywood & God
- Shame
- Notes
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