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Dream State: California in the Movies

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mick LasallePublish date:2021-05-18Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597145312ISBN-10:1597145319UPC:9781597145312Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, GenresSize:8.70 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTJ2F40G3
An eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream

It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mythology of California than the movies. Fed by the film industry, the California dream is instantly recognizable to people everywhere yet remains evasive for nearly everyone, including Californians themselves. That paradox is the subject of longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle's first book in nine years. The opposite of a dry historical primer, California in the Movies is a freewheeling journey through several dozen big-screen visions of the Golden State, with LaSalle's unmistakable contrarian humor as the guide. His writing, unerringly perceptive and resistant to clich , brings clarity to the haze of Hollywood reverie. He leaps effortlessly between genres and generations, moving with ease from Double Indemnity to the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Boyz N the Hood to Booksmart. There are natural disasters, heinous crimes, dubious utopias, dangerous romances, and unforgettable nights. Equally entertaining and unsettling, this book is a bold dissection of the California dream and its hypnotizing effect on the modern world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597145312ISBN-10:1597145319UPC:9781597145312Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, GenresSize:8.70 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTJ2F40G3
Lasalle, Mick: - Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. In the late 1990s he was the on-air film critic for the ABC-TV affiliate in San Francisco, KGO. He is the author of three previous books: Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, a history and critical study of the actresses who worked during the pre-censorship era of 1929-1934; Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man; and The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses. He wrote and coproduced the Complicated Women documentary for Turner Classic Movies, which was narrated by Jane Fonda. He has written introductions to several books, including The Enduring Star, Peter Cowie's biography of Joan Crawford.
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