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Cinematic States

by Gareth Higgins
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A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland through film in this irreverent yet moving journey through each of the 50 states. Set amongst a personal backdrop of immigration memoir, he takes on American myths in their most powerful form—the motion picture—by setting out to determine if a Kansas yellow brick road really does lead to the end of the rainbow, and whether it first has to pass through Colorado's Overlook Hotel. Amidst the multipurpose woodchippers, friendly exorcists, and faulty motel showers, resurrected baseball players, and miracle-working gardeners, he examines what the stories we tell reveal about American lives, and uses this to sum up what he has learned about the promises and failures and hope that is America.

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Publisher: Conundrum Press

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  • ISBN: 9781938633348
  • Release date: November 5, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781938633348
  • File size: 19649 KB
  • Release date: November 5, 2013

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Travel Nonfiction

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English

A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland through film in this irreverent yet moving journey through each of the 50 states. Set amongst a personal backdrop of immigration memoir, he takes on American myths in their most powerful form—the motion picture—by setting out to determine if a Kansas yellow brick road really does lead to the end of the rainbow, and whether it first has to pass through Colorado's Overlook Hotel. Amidst the multipurpose woodchippers, friendly exorcists, and faulty motel showers, resurrected baseball players, and miracle-working gardeners, he examines what the stories we tell reveal about American lives, and uses this to sum up what he has learned about the promises and failures and hope that is America.

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Travel Nonfiction