Phantom Broadcasts: Love, Death, and Movies in the Covidian Age - Softcover

Beard, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798273124417

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

What is Phantom Broadcasts?

a diversion * a book * a study of the collision of fiction and reality * a message from the future * a work of pop culture accretion, from Michael Clayton to poetry to novels to Squid Game * a work of deep pessimism * a Covid diary, tracking the ups and downs of four of America’s worst years * a meditation on evil in the movies * a rumination on the work of John Carpenter * a reflection on the work of Jack Kirby * an exploration of They Live, Halloween III, Prince of Darkness, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Society, and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, among other movies * a strange, fragmented memoir * a working through of the author’s ambiguities, contradictions, and rage * a contemplation of the end of narrative * a glimpse into how good and evil battle it out in pop culture * a damning indictment of Trump’s first term * a message from the past * a gnostic mess * a work of great optimism * a book * a distraction

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798273124417
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 261
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg