Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema - Hardcover

West, Lindy

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9780316449823: Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316449822 ISBN 13: 9780316449823
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Firebrand NY Times columnist and bestselling author Lindy West unpacks the beloved rom-coms and cult classics we love in order to dissect the culture we've created.
 
Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa—WHO IS A LION—to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?!

From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones—the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are.

At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook.

Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.

One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**

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About the Author

Lindy West is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a contributor to This American Life. She is the bestselling author of the essay collection The Witches Are Coming as well as Shrill, a memoir, which she adapted into a comedy for Hulu starring Aidy Bryant. She lives in Seattle.

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0316449822
ISBN 13 
9780316449823
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
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