Behind the Phantom's Mask, A Serial
by Roger Ebert
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0836280210
- ISBN 13
- 9780836280210
- Seller
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About This Item
"Modeled on the work of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, this serial cliffhanger follows Mason Devereaux, a once-great, hard-drinking British actor, who becomes involved in the case of an on-stage murder."
Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing voice and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America."
Starting in 1975 and continuing for decades, Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously named At the Movies programs on commercial TV broadcast syndication. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase "two thumbs up," used when both gave the same film a positive review. After Siskel died from a brain tumor in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, with Richard Roeper.
This is Ebert's only work of fiction and was published in paperback only.
Very good in black, gray and silver illustrated wrappers. Slight edge wear and creasing, and a tiny chip at the top of the rear spine. Inscribed by Ebert on the half title page.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B303
- Title
- Behind the Phantom's Mask, A Serial
- Author
- Roger Ebert
- Illustrator
- Victor Juhasz
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0836280210
- ISBN 13
- 9780836280210
- Publisher
- Andrews and McMeel
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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