Cinematic States
Subtitle: Stories We Tell, The American Dreamlife, and How To Understand Everything*
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781938633348; 9781938633171
Subjects: Myth in motion pictures; Motion pictures; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Popular Culture; PERFORMING ARTS; Reference
Description: In Cinematic States, northern Irish writer Gareth Higgins explores American myths in one of their most powerful forms. This irreverent yet moving journey through each of the 50 states of his adopted homeland asks whether a Kansas yellow brick road really does lead to the end of the rainbow, and does it first have to pass through Colorado's Overlook Hotel? Amidst the multipurpose woodchippers, friendly exorcists and faulty motel showers, resurrected baseball players and miracle-working gardeners, what do the stories we tell reveal about ourselves, and how can we reimagine who we are?