The Stuff of Hollywood (eBook)

Niki Herd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
65 Seiten
Copper Canyon Press (Verlag)
978-1-61932-293-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.The Stuff of Hollywood is a meditation on the pervasiveness of violence in America.In this book-length poem, Niki Herd relies on various modesimages, prose, lyric and documentary poemsto reflect upon the quotidian nature of gun culture, police killings, and political unrest. A busy Waffle House, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, inside an Uber on a Chicago street, readers are placed in various film locations and watch as America becomes a character in its own absurd movie. In one section, excerpted language from the continuity script of D.W. Griffiths 1915 The Birth of a Nation is juxtaposed with text from the January 6 congressional hearings, suggesting a fragile line between real and engineered brutality. Herd interrogates empire and the ways in which violence is consumed and normalized. The Stuff of Hollywood is an elegy for a country that never existed beyond the screen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 10 full-color images
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Antioch University • Black Community • cameras • Capitalism • criminal justice system • Death • Film • Grief • Gun Violence • Hero • Hollywood • Law enforcement • mass shootings • media • Movie • Police brutality • Politics • Race • Racism • Religion • Tinseltown • United States history • University of Arizona • University of Houston • Violence • washington university • white supremacy • Women poets
• ISBN-10: 1-61932-293-5 / 1619322935
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-293-6 / 9781619322936