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Title The cinema of Norman Mailer : film is like death / edited by Justin Bozung
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Contents Cover page; Halftitle page; Letter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Epigraph; FOREWORD BY MICHAEL CHAIKEN; 1 INTRODUCTION: MAILER'S FILM AESTHETICS; Reinstating Being: Wild 90 and Beyond the Law; Capturing subjective reality: Maidstone; Tough Guys Don't Dance : cubist noir; Notes; 2 SOME DIRT IN THE TALK; 3 VISUALIZING BEING AND NOTHINGNESS: MAILER MEETS GODOT; Part I: Visualizing Nothingness; Part II: Visualizing Being; Notes; 4 MAILER INTERROGATES MACHISMO: SELF-REFLEXIVE COMMENTARY IN WILD 90 AND WHY ARE WE IN VIETNAM?; Notes
5 TRANSCENDING THE FORMULA: BEYOND THE LAW AND THE OLD-FASHIONED COP MOVIE; Notes; 6 "ALL OF US ARE POLICEMEN, ALL OF US ARE CRIMINALS": DISCOVERING DOSTOEVSKY IN A RE-EVALUATION OF BEYOND THE LAW; Beyond the Law: Crime; Beyond the Law: Motive; Notes; 7 A COURSE IN FILM-MAKING; 1. On the theory; 2.; 3.; 4.; 5.; 1. In the practice; 2.; 3.; 4.; 8 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR IN MAIDSTONE; Black Brando as existential hero: "The White Negro" and the method actor; Reality testing: the violence of the cinematic apparatus and the resistance of the film actor
Mailer's Maidstone : "a commando raid on the nature of reality"; Conclusion: authorizing the real; Notes; 9 MAIDSTONE : THE UNILINEAR ABSTRACT; Notes; 10 COMMANDO RAIDS ON THE NATURE OF REALITY; Operation Leviathan; Deep in my dungeon; Mining for the ineluctable ore; Notes; 11 MAILER'S MOVIE MAJA AND DARK LADY REVEALED; A review I was writing for a local newspaper; Excuses; Advertisements for myself; The clothed and the live; Beyond the Law goes to college; And next:; Paradise island; Blue movie; Devils and gods; After the fall; Other bits, a kind of epilogue; After; Armies
12 OVEREXPOSED: MY FIRST TASTE OF FILM-MAKING; 13 NORMAN MAILER: INTERVIEW (1970); 14 MAILER, GODARD, AND COMPANY; Notes; 15 DANCE OF A TOUGH GUY; 16 PULP FICTION IN PROVINCETOWN; Notes; 17 PARADISE LOST: NORMAN MAILER AND AMERICAN PURGATORY; 18 TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE AND THE CINEMA OF REAGANISM; Notes; 19 NORMAN MAILER'S "WINDOWS"; CONTRIBUTORS; ILLUSTRATIONS; Index
Summary This volume not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The book also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary scholars, enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical connection to Mailer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Mailer, Norman fast
Subject Literature & literary studies.
Individual film directors, film-makers.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bozung, Justin, editor.
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