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    Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies
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    Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies

    By Tara Ison

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    About this ebook

    An “insightful [and] original blend of memoir and film criticism” explores how what we watch shapes our identities (Chicago Tribune).
     
    Winner of the PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction
     
    Through ten cleverly constructed essays, author, screenwriter, and passionate film buff Tara 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 takes a personal, in-depth look 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 just a means of escape or mere entertainment, Ison posits that cinema is 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 how this popular art form has influenced the way we live our lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781619025141
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      Each of the nine essays on a given topic show how films are integral to the life of the author and yourself. The dialogue inserts make you remember the film vividly in some cases and in others prompting you to put the movie title on a view again or for the first time list. The only fault I had with the book was there was no index to find the part about a specific movie. Instead you would have to look at the Contents page and read the list of movies discussed within the essay. I received a copy through LibraryThings for review.