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The Fractured Mirror: Nathan Rabin's Happy Place's Definitive Guide to American Movies About Filmmaking

The Fractured Mirror: Nathan Rabin's Happy Place's Definitive Guide to American Movies About Filmmaking

Sobreiro, Felipe
Dante, Joe
Rabin, Nathan

Paperback

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN13: 9798270401566
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From Nathan Rabin, former staff writer for The A.V. Club and The Dissolve and the author of Weird Al: The Book, You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me, and The Weird Accordion to Al, comes The Fractured Mirror, an exhaustively researched exploration of American movies about filmmaking. This loving deep dive chronicles, with humor, wit, and affection, a solid century of cinema about cinema, with illustrations from Felipe Sobreiro (The Return of the Blues Brothers) and a foreword from legendary filmmaker Joe Dante (Gremlins, Matinee). As an homage to The Golden Turkey Awards, which included a fake movie along with a plethora of real-life stinkers, Rabin got bad movie luminaries like How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer, Dan McCoy of The Flop House, Andrew Jupin of We Hate Movies and Author/Humorist Mike Sacks to create blurbs for movies that exist only in their imaginations.

The Fractured Mirror covers over 500 movies, from internationally beloved classics to notorious flops. It documents Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star and Burden of Dreams, and everything in between. Movie history has never been so much fun!

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