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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Adam M. Rosen , Landon Palmer , Nathan Abrams , Lenika CruzPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253062710ISBN 10: 0253062713 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 25 October 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: Let's Toss the Ball Around, by Adam Rosen Part I: Cliché and Convention, Misapplied 1. Chris-R's Gun: The Room as an Unconscious Parody of Hollywood Film Conventions, by Carter Soles 2. Do You Understand Life? Do You? Tommy Wiseau and the Anti-Method Acting Style, by James Curnow 3. ""She Can't Love Anyone"": The Evil Women and Tormented Men of The Room, by Lenika Cruz Part II: Unlocking The Room 4. Is The Room Worse than Vertigo? The Aesthetic Philosophy of ""So Bad it's Good"", by James MacDowell 5. Everybody Betray Me! Revenge, Reverse Revenge, and Slave Morality in The Room, by John Dyck 6. Anything for My Princess: Using Don Quixote to Bring (Some) Coherence to The Room, by Adam Rosen 7. Crypto-Wiseaulogy: Uncovering Stanley Kubrick, Jewishness, and Judaism in The Room, by Nathan Abrams Part III: Cult and the (Class)Room 8. I Just Like to Watch You Guys: How Screenings of The Room Give People Permission to Perform, by Ellen Wright 9. The Room in the Classroom: How I Use a Bad Movie to Teach Good Filmmaking, by Ross Morin 10. For the Love of Cult, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build My Own Screening of The Room, by Amanda Ann Klein Part IV: Fan Reception 11. How Can They Say This About Me? Riffing Johnny, Lisa, and Denny in Online Homebrew Commentaries of The Room, by Matt Foy 12. ""Can We Please Not Talk about James Franco?"": How The Disaster Artist Threatened The Room's Fanbase, by John Donegan 13. I'm Tired, I'm Wasted: The Room as a Waste of Time, by Ernest Mathijs Part V: Constructing Tommy Wiseau 14. Oh Man, I Just Can't Figure You Out: Building the Persona of Tommy Wiseau through The Disaster Artist, by Hario Satrio Priambodho 15. I'm an American, Just Like You: The Room and American Cinema, Identity, and Masculinity, by Landon Palmer 16. To Err Is Human, to Auteur, Divine: Tommy Wiseau as Auteur, by Renee Middlemost 17. I Don't Have a Friend in the World: The Lonely Authenticity of Tommy Wiseau, by Keith Kahn-Harris Works Cited Index"ReviewsWe enjoy laughing at The Room, but to stop there would reflect poorly on us as an audience. Something so singular and immense deserves loving attention and careful study, and that's what we find in this rich and delightful collection of essays. -- Matthew Strohl, author of Why it's OK to Love Bad Movies, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana Author InformationAdam M. Rosen is a freelance book editor and writer in Asheville, North Carolina, and a former associate editor in the reference division of Oxford University Press. He has contributed to TheAtlantic.com, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Baltimore Sun, The Onion, and many other print and online outlets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |