num_pages: 282
description: The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.
language: English
title: The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century
titlecomplete: The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century
genres: History, Film, Media Tie In, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 76
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company