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The Immediate Experience

 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
21:35 / 22.07.03
There's a new edition of The Immediate Experience by Harvard University Press. Apparently it came out last year, and I never knew.

Anyone read it?

This is one of the books which pushed me towards working in film - it's a strange but powerful collection of essays about film, comics, and culture. I say 'strange' because I'm not sure all of them are entirely straightforward - I don't know enough about Warshow to be sure when he's satirising with a straight face. Though perhaps the new edition's intro will help...