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Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, And Material Girls
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The Funny And Insightful Firstperson Story Of The Trailblazing Movie Director Of The 80S And 90S Whose Fearless Punk Drama, Smithereens Became The First American Indie Film To Compete At Cannes, And Smash Hit Desperately Seeking Susan Led To A Fourdecade Career In Film.Starting Out In The Mid70S, A Time When Few Women Were Directing Movies, Susan Was Determined To Become A Filmmaker. She Longed To Tell Stories About The Unrepresented Characters She Wanted To See On Screen: Unconventional Women In Unusual Circumstances, Needing To Express Themselves And Maintain Their Autonomy.Her Genreblending Films Reflect A Passion For Classic Hollywood Storytelling, Mixed With A Playful New Wave Spirit, Informed By Her Years Living In Downtown Nyc.Seidelman Continued To Shape American Pop Culture Well Into The Nineties, Directing The Pilot Of The Iconic Tv Series Sex And The City, Focusing Her Sharp Lens On The Changing Place Of Women In American Society And Helping To Fundamentally Reshape Our Selfimage In Ways That Are Still Felt Today.Book Details:Raised In The Safe Cocoon Of 1960S Suburbia, Susan Seidelman Wasnt A Misfit, An Oddball, Or An Outlier. She Was A Goodgirl With A Little Bit Of Bad Hidden Inside. A Restless Teenager, She Dreamed Of Escape And Reinvention, A Theme That Would Play Out In Her Films As Well As In Her Own Life. Because She Loved Stories, A High School Guidance Counselor Suggested She Become A Librarian, But She Had Her Sights Set Further Afield. In 1973, She Left The Philly Suburbs, Enrolled At Nyus Burgeoning Graduate Film School And Moved To Nycs Lower East Side. There, She Found Herself In The Right Place At The Right Time. New York City Was Falling Apart, But Out Of That Chaos Came A Burst Of Creative Energy Whose Effects Are Still Felt In American Pop Culture Today. Downtown Became A Vibrant Playground Where Film, Music, Performance And Graffiti Art Crosspollinated And Where Seidelman Chronicled The Lives Of The Colorful Misfits, Oddballs, Dreamers And Schemers She Met There.Its All In Desperately Seeking Something. Seidelman Not Only Has A Keen Perspective On The Times Shes Lived Through From Her Twiggyobsessed Girlhood, Through The Womens Lib Movement Of The Early 70S, The Punk Scene Of The Late 70S, Madonnamania Of The 80S, To The Dotcom Greed Is Good 90S, And Beyondshe Tells Great Stories.
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