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Reel bay : a cinematic essay /

"What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank in the Coen brothers' film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larson, Jana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank in the Coen brothers' film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became a remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781566896047
1566896045