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Patton Oswalt Silver Screen Fiend (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Silver Screen Fiend : Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
- Publication Name
- Silver Screen Fiend
- Title
- Silver Screen Fiend
- Subtitle
- Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1451673221
- EAN
- 9781451673227
- ISBN
- 9781451673227
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Popular Culture, Comedy, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Release Date
- 22/10/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a "heartfelt and hilarious" ( USA TODAY ) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. "[Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match" ( The New York Times ). Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film. After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of LA's alternative comedy scene, Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt's journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way. "Clever and readable...Oswalt's encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliché-riddled independents, to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirring in the background like a projector" ( The Boston Globe ). More than a memoir, this is "a love song to the silver screen" ( Paste Magazine ).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1451673221
ISBN-13
9781451673227
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208731949
Product Key Features
Book Title
Silver Screen Fiend : Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Popular Culture, Comedy, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn2287.O745a3 2015
Reviews
"[An] astute, acerbic, and footnote-crazy chronicle of life as a "movie freak mole man." ... Oswalt is a true cinephiliac, equally appreciative of the artistry of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Doris Wishman's Bad Girls Go to Hell .", Oswalt's prose is sparkling.... A coming-of middle-age meditation, Oswalt's homage to films is both hilarious and heartfelt.", Silver Screen Fiend is both a love letter to artistic obsession and string of caution tape around it. Patton describes the ecstatic demands of the arts (in this case, Stand-up and Film) with insight, fond pity, and unfailing humor. This is a book for anyone who strives to be great, or is bored in an airport., [Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match....Oswalt's writing gives off the hallucinogenic shimmer of the true obsessive, packing all the sharpness and bite of his stand-up., I loved this book. It feels like a great one sided conversation from your funniest friend. It made me feel less alone in the precious hours I read it. But now it's gone and I have nothing., Immediate and vital... [ Silver Screen Fiend is] enough to make any reader seek out the many films that made him hibernate in the first place.|9781451673227|, Clever and readable...Oswalt's encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliche-riddled independents,to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirringin the background like a projector.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-017626
Dewey Decimal
792.7/6028092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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