CASTAWAYS OF THE IMAGE PLANET：Movies,Show Business,Public Spectacle

    Castaways of the Image Planet collects sixteen years'worth of essays on film and related popular culture by Geoffrey O'Brien,one of our best cultural critics.
Most of the pieces were originally published in The New York Review of Books,The Village Voice,The New Republic,Film Comment,Filmmaker,and The New York Times.The topicw range from the invention of cineam to contemporary F-X aesthetics;from Shakespeare films to Seinfeld;from '3os screwball comedy to Hong Kong martial arts movies;from the roots of spy movies to the televising of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.
O'Brien emphasizes the unpredictable interactions between film as a mediun apt for expressing the most private dreams and film as the mass literature of the modern world,subject to alll the pressures of financing and marketing .Several of the pieces are profiles of individual directors or actors-Orson Welles,Michael Powell,Ed Wood,Marlon Brando,Alfred Hitchcock,Dana Andrews,The Marx Brothers,Bing Crosby-whose careers are probed to look for the point where obsession meets public myth-making.
作者简介:
CEOFFREY O'BRIEN is a widely published poet,critic,editor,and cultural historian.He has been honored with a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Institute for the Humanities.He is the editor-in-chief of The Library of America,and a regualr contributor to The New Youk Review of Books.He lives in New York City.

Introduction
Touch of Ego
The Ghost and the Machine
The Admiral
Close-Up of an Eye
Zukkaaa! Dokitsu!Kiiiiii!
Free Spirits
Stark Raving Mad
The Sturges Style
Tales of Two Chinas
Endless Present
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fantastic
Emperor of Ink and Air
A Kinder,Gentler Perverity
Brando:Pro and Con Man
The Birthday Party
Spymaster Lang:The Legacy of Spione
The Art of Obsession
The Ghost at the Feast
The Republic of Seinfeld
Show Trial
The Movie of the Century:The Searchers
The Mysteries of Irma Vep
Dana Andrews,or The Male Mask
Stopin' at the Savoy
Groucho and His Brothers
All the Luck in the World
The Mechanical Child
Hitchock:The Hidden Power