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| Genre/Form: | Humorous fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Erickson |
| ISBN: | 9781933372396 1933372397 |
| OCLC Number: | 174143489 |
| Notes: | "Part of this novel originally appeared in different form in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories"-- P. [331]. |
| Description: | 329, [4] p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Steve Erickson. |
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Recommended to movie lovers and fans of experimental fiction
Steve Erickson’s Zeroville begins with its protagonist Vikar, a movie-mad twenty-four year-old who has extreme close-ups of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on either side of his shaved head and a...
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Steve Erickson’s Zeroville begins with its protagonist Vikar, a movie-mad twenty-four year-old who has extreme close-ups of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on either side of his shaved head and a red teardrop tattooed under his left eye, arriving in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969. A naïf with a Forrest Gump-like knack for being at the center of big events, he quickly finds work in the movies, first as a film editor and later as a director. Through his eyes we see the events that shaped a turbulent decade in Hollywood history from within: the panic surrounding the Manson “family” murders, the birth of punk, the assault on Hollywood by American New Wave directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Brian De Palma in the 70s, and their subsequent cooption by it in the early 80s. The book’s structure evokes the feeling of a film shot out of order and assembled later: it’s divided into sections first numbered 1-227 in ascending order and then 226 back down to zero. Through the use of oblique means like this and more explicit lessons in film editing, history, and theory, Zeroville emerges as a serviceable primer for would be film buffs. The book is dense with allusions to movies and movie lore; many readers will relish the task of tracking down the references and sorting out fact from fiction, but others will find it impenetrable. Recommended to movie lovers and fans of experimental fiction. Warning: if Zeroville was a movie, it would be rated R for strong languages and adult situations
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