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Greil Marcus - The Film Noir City

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2007 · Entertainment

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Author and renowned cultural critic Greil Marcus describes the archetypal film noir city in an excerpt from his book, "The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice."

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Greil Marcus talks about "The Shape Of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice."

Marcus's cultural criticism ranges from Monica Lewinsky to David Lynch, from Lou Reed back to Philip Roth, from the Pixies to Pere Ubu, suggesting that in the U.S., artists, rather than politicians, truly have the measure of the country. - Book Passage

Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.

Marcus was born in San Francisco. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in political science. He has been a rock critic and columnist for Rolling Stone (where he was the first reviews editor, at $30 a week) and other publications, including Creem, the Village Voice and Artforum.

Marcus is the author of "Mystery Train," "Lipstick Traces" and "Invisible Republic," among many other books.

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