Walker Percy's the moviegoer at fifty: new takes on an iconic American novel / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Mary McCay ; foreword by Jat Tolson.

Contributor Levasseur, Jennifer, 1977-

Imprint:Baton Rouge : Louisania State University Press, c2016.

Descriptionxxvii, 171 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction / Mary A. McCay and Jennifer Levasseur 1 Part I. Voices of Influence The Unquiet Heart: St. Augustines Influence on Walker Percy / H. Collin Messer -- Spinning along the Gulf Coast in the Company of Cervantes / Montserrat Gins -- From the Underground Man to Alyosha Karamazov: The Trajectory of Binx Bolling in The Moviegoer / Jessica Hooten Wilson -- The Everyday Lightness of Binx: Being and Time in The Moviegoer / Brian Jobe Part II. Certifying Reality: Screening The Moviegoer Binx at the Movies, Percy at Play: The Moviegoers Cinematic References Revisited / Jonathan Potter and Read Mercer Schuchardt -- Binx Bolling as Producer, Director, Actor / Mary A. McCay -- The (Fictional) Character Projected upon the Page: The Moviegoer and the Semiotics of the Celebrity Self / Matthew Luter -- Following William Holden on Twitter: Social Media and the Search / Dorian Speed Part III. The Moviegoer as Roadmap for the Search The Need for the Disabled Body in The Moviegoer / Brent Walter Cline and Robert Bolton -- Tramps Like Us: Bruce Springsteen, Binx Bolling, and the Search for Faith and Meaning / Michael Kobre -- Journeying through Percys The Moviegoer and Gautreauxs The Missing / L. Lamar Nisly

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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