The Late Projectionist (Or, From Angst to Zilch: The Portable Buntel Eriksson Filmography) - Softcover

Howell, Daedalus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967100100 ISBN 13: 9780967100104

Publisher: Scam Com Soco Arts & Media, 1999

Synopsis

A comic "portrait of the artist" as a young cineaste-gone-wrong, The Late Projectionist chronicles the exploits of a nose-thumbing grouser about Ingmar Bergman's films, aspiring small town libertine and petty criminal who finds that love does not redeem so much as waylay wicked intentions. Our hero is a self-professed "screen memoirist," cafe bon vivant and Swedish B-film aficionado caught in a quagmire of betrayal, intrigue and comic misadventure as he pursues a lucrative antiquarian book caper (and the fetching demoiselle who threatens its success). At once a sexy, madcap kunstlerroman-gone-awry and indicting riff on a generation's malaise, The Late Projectionist takes a telepathic peek into the bizarre inner-lives of steamy baristas, self-mutilating poets, solvent-slugging actors and a movie theater projectionist whose agenda far surpasses what's on the marquee.

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About the Author

Daedalus Howell, 26, is entertainment editor of the Pulitzer-owned Argus-Courier, theater critic for the Sonoma County Independent and a frequent contributor to the North Bay edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. His play Mad Ave: A Boardroom Farce in Two Acts was featured in Sonoma County Repertory Theatre's New Drama Works Series last January. Howell studied creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scam Com Soco Arts & Media
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967100100
• ISBN 13: 9780967100104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156