Remote
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Remote

Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remote

Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity

About this book

In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narratorā€”a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted imageā€”finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him.
    Through dazzling sleight of hand in which the public becomes private and the private becomes public, the entire bookā€”clicking from confession to family-album photograph to family chronicle to sexual fantasy to pseudo-scholarly footnote to reportage to personal essay to stand-up comedy to cultural criticism to literary criticism to film criticism to prose-poem to litany to outtake ā€”becomes both an anatomy of American culture and a searing self-portrait.
    David Shields reads his own lifeā€”reads our lifeā€”as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes.

Winner of the PEN / Revson Award?

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Information

Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780299193645
eBook ISBN
9780299193638
Subtopic
Popular Culture

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Foreword
  3. Prologue: Life Story
  4. The Nimbus of Her Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  5. Problems and Solutions to Problems
  6. Information Sickness
  7. Life Story
  8. Life Story
  9. Radio
  10. Blood and Guts in High School
  11. Always
  12. Almost Famous
  13. The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  14. The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism
  15. Robert Capa, Misunderstood
  16. Love Is Not a Consolation
  17. Desire
  18. The Nimbus of Their Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  19. The Tradition Is Here, the Memories Are Waiting: Several More Sporting Events in Search of a Sponsor
  20. Always
  21. The Confessions
  22. The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism
  23. Almost Famous
  24. The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  25. Robert Capa, Misunderstood
  26. The Nimbus of His Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  27. About the Author
  28. Why We Live at the Movies
  29. Desire
  30. Where We Live and What We Live For
  31. Where We Live and What We Live For
  32. Where We Live and What We Live For
  33. Life Is Elsewhere: A Rubeā€™s Lament
  34. Almost Famous
  35. Stuttering
  36. Robert Capa, Misunderstood
  37. The Nimbus of Her Fame Makes a Nullity of Us All
  38. Where We Live and What We Live For
  39. Problems and Solutions to Problems
  40. Problems and Solutions to Problems
  41. The Subject at the Vanishing Point
  42. The Confessions
  43. Almost Famous
  44. Why We Live at the Movies
  45. Why We Live at the Movies
  46. The Nimbus of His Fame etc.: Dreams about Kurt Cobain
  47. The One We Truly Want
  48. The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism
  49. The Cultural Contradictions of Early Capitalism: Postcards from Camp
  50. Love Is Not a Consolation; Love Is a Light
  51. Desire
  52. Why We Live at the Movies
  53. The Confessions
  54. The One We Truly Want: A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire
  55. Radio
  56. Last Lines: It Isnā€™t the Suspense That Is Killing Us
  57. Epilogue: How to Make a Paper Hat
  58. Notes