{"product_id":"celeste-holm-syndrome-on-character-actors-from-hollywoods-golden-age-paperback","title":"Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Lazar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter, Oscar Levant, Martin Balsam, Nina Foch, Elizabeth Wilson, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were, and remain, to cinema.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lazar \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eI'll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2017), \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Helen of Troy? An Essay on Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Desire: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2013). He is the founding editor of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49176013996184,"sku":"9781496200457","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/MHI3aytUZ0dwWGRwVGlhVkY1Sms1QT09.webp?v=1780005179","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/celeste-holm-syndrome-on-character-actors-from-hollywoods-golden-age-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}