Beauty Talk & Monsters by Masha Tupitsyn

Beauty Talk & Monsters by Masha Tupitsyn

A collection of stories told through the movies that revisits the lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s.

Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection of stories told through the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a childhood and youth nurtured on the fringe of the glittering lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s. Moving fluidly through space, time, and a range of cinematic frameworks, Tupitsyn cuts through the cynical glamour and illusion of Hollywood to a soft, secret heart.Her narrator, a female loner and traveler, is caught in the maelstrom of films and images, where life is experienced through the eye of a camera lens and seen through the light on the screen. In a precise and elegant style, Beauty Talk & Monsters embraces and confronts a lineage of familiar myths and on- and off-screen cinematic excess in order to challenge the silver screen's century of power over our dreams and ideals. Intimate and intellectual, Tupitsyn's stories play with the cinema's most popular icons and images.

Tupitsyn, Masha: - Masha Tupitsyn is a writer and cultural critic. She is the author of LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). Her work has also appeared in The White Review, BOMB, The New Inquiry, Fence, Bookforum, Berfrois and elsewhere. She is a PhD (ABD) candidate in Philosophy at The European Graduate School in Switzerland. She lives in New York City.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781584350446
ISBN 10	158435044X
Title	Beauty Talk & Monsters
Author	Masha Tupitsyn
Series	Semiotext Native Agents
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Autonomedia
Year published	2007-04-06
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.