Critics who know Jack
Subtitle: urban myths, media and rock & roll
By: Joseph Maviglia
Series: Essential essays series -- 62
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781550718379
Subjects: Criticism; Critics; Aufzeichnung; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: Critics Who Know Jack: Urban Myths, Media and Rock & Roll is a unique collection of essays, memoirs and critiques on subjects ranging from TV programming, film and literature to rock journalism, with commentary on the interpretation of artistic expression across conventional and social media. From Feng-Shui to conspiracy theory, Maviglia debunks the rise of faddishness and new age trends that undervalue primary sources in music, literature, theatre, film, and urban living.
Notes: Essays.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: The fugitive (TV program); title: The spirit of Abbie Hoffman; title: The artist as homeowner, or: Bring me two capps!; title: Bad pop songs; title: Bad espresso; title: Great pop songs; title: The internet café; title: Gerry "the Fairy" and the Jabour Brothers; title: Failing art class and building a model from scratch (make that scotch!) in the key of F; title: Vancouver pines; title: The death of sensu(sexuality); title: Internet dating profiles, or: Do you like dogs and semiotics?; title: World cup jazz; title: Father it's time: is it piazza or pizza italyun?; title: Roland Barthes and Todd Gitlin (the interpretation of meaning and media); title: Interviewing the critics; title: Gruel (Greil) Marcus and rock criticism; title: Beauty at the café (bad espresso 2), or: Semiotics my ass!; title: The conspiracy theorist: make that "therapist"; title: Weatherman wrong? Weatherman right? (more signs); title: Miss Dowdy versus PBS; title: June 31st, three in the afternoon; title: Ladies with dogs/men with "fags"; title: It's you who look different, not the mirror (feng shui); title: Neil (the name is the same); title: Critics who know Jack (some words on rock & roll poetry); title: Tattoos; title: Marginalia; title: Lyric interpretations (with no help from my friends); title: The image that a sound creates; title: Where poets fight (Whitman, McCrae, Rimbaud); title: An interview with Robert Allyn; title: Does the snake will the shedding of its skin?; title: Helium world: "holy crackers" (The Bee Gees, Robert Plant and Pee-Wee Herman); title: Dude stopping bullfights; title: Editors; title: Ostrich; title: My editor has a goiter and wants to eat my book; title: She said: "I like it that Leonardo paints ..."; title: Joe Kapp, Angelo Mosca and Zinedine Zidane; title: One; title: Roy Orbison; title: Late for the sky (Billy Joel's The stranger versus Travis Bickle); title: Celebrity journalists ("Yellow up!"); title: Asphalt and plastic; title: Song for thinkin' about; title: Who is who? Winston Churchill and quantum physics; title: Pickles and Nashville; title: Ball cap backwards; title: Smart-ass talk (Independence day versus On the road); title: I can't get no satisfaction and Darkness at the bread of noon and Ginsberg's Howl (Poetry and only the suggestion of it); title: Titles; title: In memoriam (Full Moon Lou).