Reel Politik
$39.65
- Paperback
157 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2025
Summary
An absurdist comic strip satire of cinephilia in the attention economy.
A specter is haunting the cinema. A contrarian crew of small town theatre employees trade quips about directors, film criticism, and contemporary moviegoing, but underneath their banter and clashes with customers, an ideology begins to take shape. With the help of a dissatisfied cinephile and some witchy magic, the employees radicalize, take over the theatre, and seize the means of projection.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770468153 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770468153 |
| Author: | Nathan Gelgud |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 157 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 123mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
“An ad hoc cadre of militant cinemaniacs register their distaste for the consumer-capitalist status quo in this hilariously snarky collection.“–Publishers Weekly
“Slapstick cinephilia… If the Dziga Vertov group had made underground comics, they might have looked something like Reel Politik.“–Sight and Sound Magazine
“Clever, absurdist… a guide to surviving the modern age.“–Art Review Magazine
“A bold genre-skewering satire for fans of humor, experimental comics, and pop culture criticism…beneath the comedy is a sincere critique of what it means to go to the movies in an age of endless algorithmically driven content and vanishing communal spaces.“–Library Journal
Nathan Gelgud
Nathan Gelgud has been a projectionist, a video store clerk, and a movie critic. In 2012, he came in second place for the AltWeekly Award in Arts Criticism. He pretty much quit film criticism right after that. He makes comics about the arts for the New York Times and Hyperallergic when they let him. He used to live in New York, now he lives in Los Angeles. He is also the author of Reel Politik.
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