Magic and myth of the movies - Parker Tyler

- paperback, gelijmd
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- This first British edition of a legendary underground classic is a pioneer work of psychoanalytical film criticism. It discusses Mildred Pierce, The woman in the window, The seventh veil and other films of the high 40s, bringing to the commercial cinema awkward and novel insights from literature and psychology.
- American film critic Parker Tyler (1904-1974) achieved an unusual kind of fame in the last seven years of his life by having this book, first published in 1947, being extensively and admiringly quoted by the trans-gender eponymous heroine of Gore Vidal's outrageous best-selling novel Myra Breckinridge. After Myra Breckinridge had become a best-seller and a controversial film, Tyler's original was reissued and found many new readers.