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"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid - hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today's Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), 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 & God" is an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Hollywood & God
• Author: Robert Polito
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9780226673394
• ISBN: 0226673391
• ID: 04548436
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 282 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 160 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2009

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