In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood\'s Golden Age.
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Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind.
In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood\'s Golden Age