β Scribed by Robert Polito
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Hollywood & Godis a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbingβeven luridβhallucination. From theBaltimore Catechismto the great noir films of the last century to todayβs 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 & Godis an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious.
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