The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

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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.

About the Author


Geoffrey O'Brien is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the author of Hard-Boiled America and Dream-Time: Chapters from the Sixties. He lives in New York City.

Praise For…


Ingenious and idiosyncratic . . . a work that somehow manages to be both a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching and an extremely compact history of the cinema.

— Louis Menand - The New Yorker

One of the most eccentrically engaging books to come out all year. . . . The Phantom Empire is an elegy for reality, the screenplay of a celluloid culture.

— Voice Literary Supplement


Product Details
ISBN: 9780393312966
ISBN-10: 0393312968
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: May 17th, 1995
Pages: 282
Language: English