REELING THROUGH LIFE: HOW I LEARNED TO LIVE, LOVE AND DIE AT THE MOVIES
Book ID/图书代码： 07633014B74626
English Summary/英文概要： Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love.
Cinema is a universal cultural experience, one that floods our senses with images and sounds, a powerful force that influences our perspective on the world around us. Ison discusses the universal aspects of film as she makes them personal, looking at how certain films across time shaped and molded who she has become. Drawing on a wide ranging catalog of films, both cult and classic, popular and art-house, Reeling Through Life examines how cinema shapes our views on how to make love, how to deal with mental illness, how to be Jewish, how to be a woman, how to be a drunk, and how to die with style.
Rather than being a means of escape or object of mere entertainment, Ison posits that cinema is a more engaging form of art, a way to slip into other identities and inhabit other realities. A way to orient oneself into the world. Reeling Though Life is a compelling look at one popular art form and how it has influenced our identities in provocative and important ways.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书研究了电影是如何塑造个性的。通过10篇结构精巧的散文，作者探索了一生的观影经历是如何教会她在这个世界上生存并应对各种职业、家庭、信仰、疾病、性、爱的问题。
看电影是一种非常普遍的文化体验，图像和声音充斥着我们的感官，用一种强大的力量影响我们对周围世界的看法。作者在讨论电影的普遍性的同时探讨了它们所带来的个人化感受，研究了某些电影是如何塑造并改变她的。通过包括cult、经典、流行、艺术等各种类型的电影，本书研究了电影是如何塑造我们对做爱、心理疾病、做犹太人、做女人、酗酒、优雅地死去等各种问题的看法的。
作者认为，电影不光是人们借以逃离现实或进行娱乐的工具，同时是一种让我们进入其他身份或现实的强大的艺术形式。它能帮助个体在世界中找到方向。本书探讨了这种流行艺术形式对我们的个性及身份所造成的影响，非常引人入胜。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“是所有电影爱好者的必读作品，定能引起大家的共鸣。作者以一种百科全书式的视角，像斯蒂芬金写恐怖小说那样描写电影和生活。”——David Koepp，编剧，作品包括《侏罗纪公园》《蜘蛛侠》
"Essential and completely identifiable reading for any film lover. Tara Ison writes about movies and life the way Stephen King can write about horror —with an encyclopedic knowledge of both." —David Koepp, screenwriter, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man
About the Author/作者介绍： Tara Ison，著有小说《The List》、《A Child Out of Alcatraz》（曾入围洛杉矶时报图书奖决选名单）、《Rockaway》入选O Magazine评出的2013年最佳图书。她的短片小说和散文曾发表于Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Nerve.com, Publishers Weekly（出版人周刊）及多部合辑中。她还是Cult电影《"Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead》的合著者。
Tara Ison is the author of the novels The List, A Child Out of Alcatraz, a Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Rockaway, selected as a 2013 Best Books of Summer by O Magazine. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Nerve.com, Publishers Weekly, and numerous anthologies. She is the co-author of the cult film "Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead."
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