Nathan Rabin
Forfatter af My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure
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Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment guide of The Onion. He is also the author of a memoir, The Big Rewind, and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently collaborated with pop parodist Weird Al Yankovic on a coffee-table book vis mere called Weird Al: The Book. Rabin's writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve, and Modern Humorist. He lives in Chicago with his wife and has learned to love both Faygo and extended guitar Solos. vis mindre
Værker af Nathan Rabin
My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure (2010) 159 eksemplarer
You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most… (2013) 75 eksemplarer
The Weird Accordion to Al: Every "Weird Al" Yankovic Album Obsessively Analyzed by the Co-Author of Weird Al: The Book… (2020) 18 eksemplarer
The Weird Accordion to Al: Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition: An Entirely Excessive Analysis of… (2020) 11 eksemplarer
The Joy of Trash : Nathan Rabin's Happy Place's Definitive Guide to the Very Worst of Everything (2021) 6 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1976-04-24
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Erhverv
- film critic
- Organisationer
- The Onion
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Weird Al: The Book af Nathan Rabin
It's a coffee table book about Weird Al ... I'm not sure what else you're expecting? I will admit to hoping for a slightly more critical/in-depth look at his life and career, but it's got some neat art/pictures, and a wide-ranging look at Al's life from the beginning of his career through Alpocalypse.
This book is something that I would consider a seminal work of film criticism, and in its own way shows how the internet and home video have changed film and film criticism.
Because of the internet, and the ability to take films home with us, the obscure films, the flops and the bombs have a chance to get legs, find their audiences later on, and get the fan base and success that they have so richly deserved, as with Joe Vs. The Volcano & The Rocketeer. Alternately, they preserve failure and the bizarre cinematic decisions that lead to those failures for all time, as is the case with films like Mame and Pennies from Heaven.
Honestly, if you want consider yourself a big fan of film, I'd definitely consider this book worth reading.… (mere)
Because of the internet, and the ability to take films home with us, the obscure films, the flops and the bombs have a chance to get legs, find their audiences later on, and get the fan base and success that they have so richly deserved, as with Joe Vs. The Volcano & The Rocketeer. Alternately, they preserve failure and the bizarre cinematic decisions that lead to those failures for all time, as is the case with films like Mame and Pennies from Heaven.
Honestly, if you want consider yourself a big fan of film, I'd definitely consider this book worth reading.… (mere)
It's a coffee table book about Weird Al ... I'm not sure what else you're expecting? I will admit to hoping for a slightly more critical/in-depth look at his life and career, but it's got some neat art/pictures, and a wide-ranging look at Al's life from the beginning of his career through Alpocalypse.
A passably entertaining compilation of Rabin's AV Club column revisiting and reviewing major movie flops, from the big names (Waterworld, Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate) to the obscure (Skidoo, OC and Stiggs etc). Rabin is a pithy, funny writer, but (betraying its weekly column origins) this is very much a book you dip in and out of rather than one that you should read in one hit.
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- 10
- Medlemmer
- 554
- Popularitet
- #45,050
- Vurdering
- 3.4
- Anmeldelser
- 18
- ISBN
- 15
- Sprog
- 2