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DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West

DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West


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Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. Contents: A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin A Life excerpt - Elia Kazan The Celluloid Brassière - Andy Logan Rainy Day - Lillian Ross The Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina Telaroli The Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis Borges Ace in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly Haskell What Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael Koresky One False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-Bose Maigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges Simenon Sunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara Smith The Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent Jones Bad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin Collins Black Desert, White Desert - Serge Toubiana Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas Mekas Beyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: Nashville - Pauline Kael Coming Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller Seitz Selections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob Balaban Introduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François Truffaut By The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora Siemsen My Guy - Hilton Als Wild to the Wild - Sam Shepard

About the Author :
Wes Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. His latest film is Asteroid City. Jacob "Jake" Perlin is a film programmer, distributor and publisher. He is the founding Artistic Director of Metrograph. His companies, The Film Desk and Film Desk Books, recently released Vengeance is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984) and No Fear No Die (Claire Denis, 1990), and new editions of Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel and Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau. Perlin also oversees Cinema Conservancy, a non-profit whose most recent release is James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973). He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and received a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his "Indispensable contributions to fi lm culture."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781805330516
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West
  • ISBN-10: 1805330519
  • Publisher Date: 22 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 129 mm


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