Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien (Hardcover First Edition)
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Published by W, W. Norton & Company, 1993
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing
281 pages
8.5x5.5 inches
First edition. Book and dust jacket in Near Fine condition. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
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.
