Poetry. Film Studies. FLIC(K)S: POETIC INTERROGATIONS OF AMERICAN CINEMA is a collection of poems that brilliantly investigates the dark political legacy of American cinema, from Cat People to Thelma and Louise. "Jaffe['s]...film poems [are] offered as proof that movies are...capitalist fairytales in the Brothers Grimm sense, the truth at its most enormous, and wearing its most terrifying shoes, jack boots, under its petticoats"--Michael McIrvin.
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Jaffe['s]...film poems [are] offered as proof that movies are...capitalist fairytales in the Brothers Grimm sense, the truth at its most enormous, and wearing its most terrifying shoes, jack boots, under its petticoats. ---Michael McIrvin --Afterword
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Maggie Jaffe is the author of six books of poetry. Her two previous books, 7th Circle and The Prisons, won San Diego Book Awards for poetry. She teaches at San Diego State University in the English and Comparative Literature Department. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a California Arts Council Grant.
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Enthralling Collection,
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An enthralling collection of poems based on edgy and classic movies, among them Thelma and Louise, Dracula, Cat People, Psycho, Red River, and The Searchers. The poems fly in and out of the films, capturing portions of plot, commenting sharply on their political and sexual themes, dipping into the biographies (often heartbreaking) of the actors and directors, and the poet's own experiences while watching the films. This collection is a page turner. I loved it.
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Could not put this book down.I read it, re-read it and it was so potent and right on about the Hollywierd side of film. I recommend it to all film makers so they get a take on what the story is really about interwoven with the author's experience. So much depth, real, surreal,the lines are reading in between the lines!!!
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