Maurice Yacowar
Autor(a) de Loser Take All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen
About the Author
Maurice Yacowar is professor emeritus of English and film studies at the University of Calgary. He has published studies of the films of Tennessee Williams, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Paul Morrissey, as well as a novel, The Bold Testament. His most recent books are The Sopranos Season Seven and mostrar mais the biography The Great Bratby. mostrar menos
Obras por Maurice Yacowar
The great Bratby : a portrait of John Bratby RA 2 exemplares
Film springs eternal.(Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival )(In the Bedroom)(Black Hawk Down)… (2002) 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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- Obras
- 15
- Membros
- 126
- Popularidade
- #159,216
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 31
- Línguas
- 1
if you think of Morrissey as some sort of champion of the blatantly perverse, forget it. This bk, at least, portrays him as a sortof ultra-right-wing republican whose filmic morals are somewhat less than enlightened. Take "Spike of Bensonhurst" - one might think that the depiction of the Mafia's destroying other neighborhoods w/ their addicitive drug dealing (while keeping their own neighborhood drug-free) might be criticized here as an indication of the Mafia's total racism. But, NO, not according to this bk - Yacowar claims that Morrissey ADMIRES the Mafia as a keeper of law & order & as an example to be followed. As for the drug-users? Apparently they're scum who get what they deserve for being so 'liberal'.
Can Morrissey really be this big of an asshole?! I like his films, even though I think he's a ruthless exploiter, & even I find Yacowar's take on "Spike" a bit hard to swallow. STILL, the arguments are convincing enuf & Morrissey WAS a close associate of Warhol's - who exploited people as much as his greedy little hands cd manage. So, dunno. Morrissey's complex - or maybe he's not - maybe he's just a right-wing airhead gay guy (like Roy Cohn) who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to rip people off & run w/ the money.… (mais)