Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age

by David Lazar

Book Overview

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496200454
• ISBN13: 9781496200457
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"