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This is the perfect companion for a tour of the moody, ominous, violent underbelly of American moviemaking. Poet and novelist Barry Gifford writes with a connoisseur’s insight and an offbeat sensitivity perfectly tailored to his subjects and the America they illuminate – from James Cagney’s fiery Oedipal apotheosis at the climax of the gangster pic White Heat to James Dean’s embodiment of teenage anomie in Rebel Without a Cause to Walter Matthau’s low-rent authority as a small-time in Charley Varrick. Here he discussed hundreds of films, giving a “cinematic fever chart of the American dream.”
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