Placeholder text

Go to cart

A Crack-Up at the Race Riots

By Harmony Korine

A Crack-Up at the Race Riots Contemporary literature

A Crack-Up at the Race Riots

0 - Used - good
Description
The original Ritalin kid, Harmony Korine burst on the scene with "Kids, a film so gritty and unsettling in its depiction of teen life that it was slapped with an NC-17 rating and banned in some theaters across the country. In some ways, the media frenzy over the rating overshadowed the harrowing portrait of teenagers destroying their lives and the then twenty-one-year-old screenwriter who created them. "Whether you see the movie as a masterpiece or as sensationalism," wrote Lynn Hirshberg, "the movie is relentless and brilliant and extremely disturbing. It's powerful-both steel-eyed and sexy; horrifying and captivating." Now, in this first book of fictional set pieces, Korine captures the fragmented moments of a life observed through the demented lens of media, TV, and teen obsession. Korine reinvents the novel in this highly experimental montage of scenes that seem both real and surreal at the same time. With a filmmaker's eye and a prankster's glee, this bizarre collection of jokes, half-remembered scenes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas, and suicide notes is an episodic, epigrammatic lovesong to the world of images. Korine is the voice of his media-savvy generation and "A Crack-Up at the Race Riots is the satiric lovechild of his dark imagination.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2013-04-16
Publication Date:
2013-04-16
Publisher:
Drag City
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1937112101
ISBN13:
9781937112103
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
237 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out