THE MAGIC SHADOW SHOW: A Metaphysical Approach to Film

Are movies more real than real life? Writer, poet and amateur filmmaker Michael Pendragon attempts to answer this question with a philosophical examination of such topics as the nature of reality, life, death, love, beauty, art, literature, poetry, magic, time, myth, psychology, Heaven, Hell, and God as they relate to the motion picture medium. Authors whose works are discussed include Poe, Shakespeare, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Melville, Whitman, Plato, Lucretius, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Huxley, Hesse, Jung, Freud, Campbell, and Pirsig.