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Five Conversations about Peter Sellers : Hybrid Play/Essay
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"The essay begins as an exploration of James's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late ...
"The essay begins as an exploration of James's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 1960s. But what begins as a straight reported piece on how the film set erupted into chaos, quickly devolves into its own chaos as the essay splits into 5 different narrators, each with their own agenda of what the essay is actually about. Is it about how Peter Sellers and his oversize ego ruined Casino Royale? Is it about how society has too long allowed horrible men to run the world? Is it an exploration of the nature of the essay as a creative form? Or is Peter Sellers and his genius at impersonation actually a vehicle through which James probes her own shifting identity as a Mexican-American woman? The answer is...yes"--
Details
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- College Station : Texas Review Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (78 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781680033045
- OCLC
- on1379265886
- Intro -- Blank Page -- Blank Page
Subjects
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Impersonation.
- Fame -- Social aspects.
- Motion picture acting.
- Parody films -- Production and direction.
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Casino Royale (Motion picture : 1967) -- History and criticism.
- Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980 -- Psychology.
- Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980 -- Performances.
- Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980.