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The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Essays on Movies and Politics
Contributor(s): Shepard, Jim (Author)

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ISBN: 1941040721     ISBN-13: 9781941040720
Publisher: Tin House Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Art | Art & Politics
- Art | Film & Video
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2017010540
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" L (0.70 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/05/2017
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017
Shelf Awareness 09/22/2017
 
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Given that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe, for example, that our country always means well when intervening abroad?

The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions, in that regard, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the "high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness" captured in GoodFellas, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a "portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders' conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge," he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films--Chinatown, The Third Man, and Badlands among others--in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.


Contributor Bio(s): Shepard, Jim: - Jim Shepard is the author of seven novels, including most recently The Book of Aron, five story collections, including Like You'd Understand, Anyway--a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize--and editor of the anthology Writers at the Movies. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his wife, three children, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College.
 
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