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Queen"s University Belfast.
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Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*
(A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland thr...)
A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland through film in this irreverent yet moving journey through each of the 50 states. Set among a personal backdrop of immigration memoir, he takes on American myths in their most powerful form-the motion picture-by setting out to determine if a Kansas yellow brick road really does lead to the end of the rainbow, and whether it first has to pass through Colorado's Overlook Hotel. Amid the multipurpose woodchippers, friendly exorcists, and faulty motel showers, resurrected baseball players, and miracle-working gardeners, he examines what the stories we tell reveal about American lives and uses this to sum up what he has learned about the promises, failures, and hope that is America.
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Gareth Higgins
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He is the founding director of the Wild Goose Festival. He is a graduate in sociology from Queen"s University of Belfast (Bachelor, Doctor of Philosophy). He has written and spoken widely on religion and conflict, art and spirituality and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times, Sojourners, and Third Way Magazine, among others
He appears regularly on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, and he and Jett Loe co-present a film review podcast called "The Film Talk".
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Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*
(A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland thr...)
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Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*
