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Poetry. Film Studies. FLIC(K)S: POETIC INTERROGATIONS OF AMERICAN CINEMA is a collection of poems that brilliantly investigates the dark political legacy of American cinema, from Cat People to Thelma and Louise. "Jaffe['s]...film poems [are] offered as proof that movies are...capitalist fairytales in the Brothers Grimm sense, the truth at its most enormous, and wearing its most terrifying shoes, jack boots, under its petticoats"--Michael McIrvin.
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Maggie Jaffe is the author of six books of poetry. Her recent books, 7TH CIRCLE (Cedar Hill Books, 2003) and THE PRISONS (Cedar Hill Books, 2001), won the San Diego Book Award for Poetry. She teaches at San Diego State University in the English and Comparative Literature Department. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a California Arts Council Grant.
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Jaffe['s]...film poems [are] offered as proof that movies are...capitalist fairytales in the Brothers Grimm sense, the truth at its most enormous, and wearing its most terrifying shoes, jack boots, under its petticoats. ---Michael McIrvin --Afterword
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- PublisherRed Dragonfly Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1890193895
- ISBN 13 9781890193898
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages76
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