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Bartok, Dennis; Joseph, Jeff - Thousand Cuts - 9781496807731 - V9781496807731
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Thousand Cuts

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Description for Thousand Cuts Hardback. Presents a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays. Num Pages: 240 pages, 47 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB; JFD; WC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays.

The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne discussing Rock Hudson's secret 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening King Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496807731
SKU
V9781496807731
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Bartok, Dennis; Joseph, Jeff
Dennis Bartok, Burbank, California, USA is a filmmaker and screenwriter, and currently head of distribution for art-house distributor Cinelicious Pics. He was formerly head of programming for the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Jeff Joseph, Littlerock, California, USA is a motion picture archivist and formerly one of the best-known film dealers in the United States. Jeff and his ... Read more

Reviews for Thousand Cuts
"This entertaining chronicle from filmmaker Bartok and film archivist Joseph highlights a clandestine, largely bygone world of film print collectors..." Publishers Weekly "Bartok and Joseph have certainly done their part to preserve some strange and often overlooked imagery. A collection of singular encounters with a film subculture...many offering unique insight into the darker fringes of a bygone Hollywood." Kirkus ... Read more

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