In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.

About the Author
Geoffrey O'Brien is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the author of Hard-Boiled America and Dream-Time: Chapters from the Sixties. He lives in New York City.

Reviews
"Ingenious and idiosyncratic . . . a work that somehow manages to be both a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching and an extremely compact history of the cinema." -- Louis Menand - The New Yorker
"One of the most eccentrically engaging books to come out all year. . . . The Phantom Empire is an elegy for reality, the screenplay of a celluloid culture." -- Voice Literary Supplement


Awards
Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 1993.



Book Information
ISBN 9780393312966
Author Geoffrey O'Brien
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm