Steve Erickson
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Sull'Autore
Steve Erickson teaches writing at the California Institute of the Arts and is also the film critic for Los Angeles magazine.
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Steve Rhodes
Serie
Opere di Steve Erickson
Full-Blooded Fantasy 1 copia
Black Clock 11 — A cura di — 1 copia
Black Clock #1 & #6 1 copia
Black Clock 5 1 copia
Black Clock 6 1 copia
Black Clock 7 1 copia
Black Clock 2 1 copia
Black Clock 8 1 copia
Black Clock 3 1 copia
Black Clock 13 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Collaboratore — 216 copie
Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (2006) — Introduzione — 188 copie
The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (2005) — Collaboratore — 159 copie
Bomb 20, Summer 1987 — interview — 1 copia
Years Between Stations: The Dream of America in Steve Erickson — Novel Excerpts — 1 copia
Rolling Stone Magazine #724/725, December 28 1995-January 11 1996 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Erickson, Stephen Michael
- Data di nascita
- 1950-04-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA (birthplace)
Topanga Canyon, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA|Film|1972)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA|Journalism|1973) - Attività lavorative
- film critic
professor
novelist
essayist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
Grantee, National Endowment for the Arts (1987)
Utenti
Discussioni
Days Between Stations in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Novembre 2016)
Why The Clocks Have All Stopped in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Giugno 2014)
Rubicon Beach in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Aprile 2012)
These Dreams of You in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Marzo 2012)
Writers on Steve Erickson in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Marzo 2012)
meat and meaning in The Clocks Have All Stopped (Marzo 2012)
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 37
- Opere correlate
- 26
- Utenti
- 2,802
- Popolarità
- #9,179
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 63
- ISBN
- 99
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 24
We follow his journey beginning on the day that he arrives in LA in 1969 amid the background of hippies and surfers and the Manson murders through his becoming part of the studio system over the next decade and a half and watching him and his contemporaries navigate the turbulent years of Hollywood studios when everything was changing quickly.
This book is a veritable feast for any serious cinephile. It is overflowing with film references, Hollywood history, and thinly veiled characters. I absolutely love the movies but I don't consider myself anywhere near an expert and I enjoyed all the references and had fun figuring out who was who and what was what. I imagine that my many film savant friends would be in heaven with that part of it.
While the novel follows a standard timeline through the years, Erickson manages to make the sum of the parts feel diaphanous and perpetual much like the philosophy of Vikar in that "all the scenes of a movie are really happening at the same time. No scene really leads to the next, all scenes lead to each other. . . . 'Continuity' is one of the myths of film."
It wasn't my favourite Erickson novel but it still had that 'bit darker, bit deeper' quality which I can count on him for.… (altro)