Poetry. WATER & POWER was the original title of the film Chinatown, referring to the utility department that caused so much devastation to the Owens River: a fitting title for Standard Schaefer's second book and its many thematic overlaps with the film. Schaefer draws on documentary materials, journals, biographies, Hollywood myth and the literature of the American West to describe the landscape and characters of that terrain as quite distinct from the legacy of Walden Pond and its corresponding notions of individualism so prevalent in American culture. Drawing from the music of Charles Mingus, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, and Willie Nelson, he tries to capture the music on which the landscapes depend. WATER & POWER is a portrait of the American West as seen through CIA satellite photographs accompanied by the music of West Coast Jazz and the European avant-garde composers who took refuge there.
- ISBN:
- 9781568861074
- 9781568861074
- Category:
- Poetry
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-2005
- Publisher:
- Agincourt Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Weight:
- 0.14kg
Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available
Great!
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Select the List you'd like to categorise as, or add your own
Here you can mark if you have read this book, reading it or want to read
Awesome! You added your first item into your Library
Great! The fun begins.
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Reviews
Be the first to review Water and Power.
Share This Book: