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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781564781604 ISBN: 1564781607 Label: Dalkey Archive Press Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 187 Publication Date: March 01, 2007 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Studio: Dalkey Archive Press Sales Rank: 691738 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover's Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great selection of short stories with cinematic themes...You must remember this features the love of Rick and Ilse as you've never imagined it before. Other stories offer a colorful though often sadistic portrayal of the place where reality meets the celluloid imaginings that too often seem to dominate our lives. Wonderful, clear, easy to read prose. Bitingly honest. Rating:  - Coovers book is a masterpiece that reflects today's society.A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES by Robert Coover is a bunch of short stories within a story, these stories are based on movie sterotypes. This story is based on sex and violence which increase within the story. This story shows the purpose of the increase in sex and violence within society from the 40's to the present. Coover strength in most cases is how he uses various movie sterotypes to display the ending that is not your typical ending. A western movie would overall include the "good guy" winning, ... Read More Rating:  - "A Night At The Movies" by Robert Coover is satirical"A Night At The Movies by Robert Coover ia a collection of short narratives that provide a satirical glimpse of this centuries film genres and extends them beyond traditional arcs to cross genres and dissolve boundaries between them. The most interesting aspect of Coover's text is by combining so many film types such as Westerns, adventure, horror and romance, and extending their stereotypical plots, he is providing commentary on the new age of film and how their boundaries are muted and not ... Read More Rating: - This is truly a Night at the Movies!!A Night at the Movies is a well structured view of movie scenes fanagled together to represent a post-modernistic production. What is most interesting about Coover's book is how he incoporated all the "movie" scenes together to create a certain affect, and yet you have to remember you're just reading a book! One of Coover's overall strengths is the way in which he lays out a scene for you that is not quite verbatim (or an exact replica of) the an actual movie or sitcom, yet you can make rather ... Read More Rating: - This is truly a Night at the Movies!!A Night at the Movies is a well structured view of movie scenes fanagled together to represent a post-modernistic production. What is most interesting about Coover's book is how he incoporated all the "movie" scenes together to create a certain affect, and yet you have to remember you're just reading a book! One of Coover's overall strengths is the way in which he lays out a scene for you that is not quite verbatim (or an exact replica of) the an actual movie or sitcom, yet you can make rather ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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