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Reeling Through Life : How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies by Tara Ison is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love.Cinema is a universal cultural experience, one that floods our senses with images and sounds, a powerful force that influences our perspective on the world around us. Ison discusses the universal aspects of film as she makes them personal, looking at how certain films across time shaped and molded who she has become. Drawing on a wide ranging catalog of films, both cult and classic, popular and art-house, Reeling Through Life examines how cinema shapes our views on how to make love, how to deal with mental illness, how to be Jewish, how to be a woman, how to be a drunk, and how to die with style.Rather than being a means of escape or object of mere entertainment, Ison posits that cinema is a more engaging form of art, a way to slip into other identities and inhabit other realities. A way to orient oneself into the world. Reeling Though Life is a com

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Author

Tara Ison

Publisher

Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619024816

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.65 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14