Mann on Film: It's a Mad World and other essays

By S. E. Mann
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Published: Dec. 02, 2009
Words: 29,175 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452449777


Description

S.E. Mann celebrates American cinema and culture in this first in a series of books on entertainment. From his Tokyo hideaway, S.E. Mann offers up a blue plate special of juicy insight garnished with humor and gushing with delicious admiration for America's most beloved institution, Hollywood.

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romance, celebrity, hollywood, women, suspense, education, adventure, history, 80s, politics, dystopia, men, alien, tokyo, 70s, culture, movie, 60s, 50s, director, cinema, atom bomb, hg wells, star wars, schizoid, character, hiroshima, war of the worlds, actress, actor, indiana jones, drivein movie, world war, strangelove, raiders, woody allen, b movie, drivein, protest, propoganda, michael moore, howard zinn, nagasaki, war game, kubrick, fail safe, the thing from another world, howard hawks, them, monster movie, computer graphics, mad world, thx 1138, zardoz, soylent green, fahrenheit 451, logans run, bernard herrmann, legend of boggy creek, matt damon, nicole kidman, dvd sales, ken toby, less tremayne, george pal, paul frees, mtv, 30s, okinawa, ben hur, ilderim, balthasar, in harms way, battleground, alvy singer, casablanca, 40s

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Review by: Rye Dano on July 04, 2010 : star star star star star
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(reviewed the day of purchase)

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