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- Why films have supplanted novels as major story-telling medium
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Why you should read Surfing the Zeitgeist
Gilbert Adair, a novelist, biographer, and critic presents a series of eighty essays about the state of culture. He focuses on politics and on the popular and literary arts - cinema, theater, opera, fiction, and visual arts. Though the title might suggest a comprehensive analysis of today’s cultural trends, his "surfing" has nothing to do with the Web. Instead, his overview is highly infused with a British literary and artistic sensibility. These essays are perfect for intellectual, cultural connoisseurs. However, recreational readers may find Adair’s numerous references to the early 1990s British cultural scene obscure and remote. Adair discusses some American movies and offers some interesting insights, although his writing is complex, even convoluted. The dense essays are packed with literary asides and personal references. getAbstract.com recommends this book to students of modern culture, arts aficionados of an intellectual or Anglophile bent, and those who read everything about the movies, no matter how challenging.
About the author
Gilbert Adair has written three novels, The Holy Innocents, Love and Death on Long Island, and The Death of the Author. His non-fiction books include Hollywood’s Vietnam, Myths & Memories, and The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice. He also wrote a full-length verse parody of The Rape of the Cock, and is working on a biography of Jean Cocteau.
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