Being There in the Age of Trump

The first book-length examination of Jerzy Kosinski in more than a decade, Being There in the Age of Trump goes beyond conventional literary and film analysis to a larger interdisciplinary and cultural study of the issues that Kosinski so presciently explored in both the novel and the film Being There.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Being Political: Television and American Politics

Chapter 2: Blank Page: Conflating Biography and Fiction

Chapter 3: A Nation of Videots: Being There the Novel

Chapter 4: "I Just Like to Watch": Being There the Film

Chapter 5: Disturbing the Roots: Being Controversial

Chapter 6: Chance Encounters: Iterations of Being There

About the author

Barbara Tepa Lupack, PhD, is the director of Finger Lakes Film Trail.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Tepa Lupack
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781793607188
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-718-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Cultural Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literature: history and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism