A01=Celeste Gainey
ambition
Author_Celeste Gainey
boy
brave
Category=DCF
cinema
desire
Dog Day Afternoon
emotional life
Employees
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
experimenta
film industry
gritty
IATSE
identity
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
light
Lucille Ball
movie stories
outsiders
presence
sex
synchronicity
Taxi Driver
The Wiz
unique perspective
Product details
- ISBN 9780989036122
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 177 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Light is the preoccupation, vocation, and language of the GAFFER, the debut collection of poems by Celeste Gainey, the first woman gaffer to be admitted to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the preeminent craft union in the motion picture industry. These poems vividly depict the gaffer’s terrain from the set of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, to Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and The Wiz, to a lighting session with Lucille Ball. In these poems is the quest for identity and synchronicity within the imagined and experimental realm of light and cinema, and the immutable physical world where notions of gender, sex, desire, and ambition are prescribed a priori. the GAFFER deconstructs the idea of outsider as pioneer—then runs with it.
