Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II - Hardcover

Schickel, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566634911 ISBN 13: 9781566634915

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, 2003

Synopsis

In this book the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life during the years of World War II. Richard Schickel's engaging memoir is not a fashionable tale of childhood abuse, but it does chart the growth of one addiction: a boy's attraction to the movies, which was to become a lifelong passion. In the dark movie palaces of his youth, Mr. Schickel confesses, he surrendered a great deal of his imaginative self and found the romance and heroic adventure so lacking in the serene and placid little world he inhabited. Looking back now, he finds that much of the drama in his young life was covered in silence, duplicity, and misdirection-a happy middle-class fiction that evaded the harsher facts of life. And so did Hollywood. It showed us fantastic possibilities and made them plausible, but in so doing it profoundly misled us about the nature of the war, our soldiers, our government, and the home front. Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip is Mr. Schickel's effort to set the record straight about that view of the war promoted by our popular culture, and he does it by illuminating the meaning of wartime films set against the background of his own growing up. It's a wonderful reading experience.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In his new book the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life as a child growing up in a comfortable Milwaukee suburb during the years of WW II.

About the Author:

Richard Schickel, film critic for Time for many years, has written biographies of Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, D. W. Griffith, Cary Grant, and Walt Disney, as well as The Men Who Made the Movies, His Picture in the Papers, and Intimate Strangers, a pioneering study of celebrity. He also produces films for television. Mr. Schickel lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1566634911
• ISBN 13: 9781566634915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336