Out There in the Dark

<p>Katharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. She watches <em>The Sound of Music</em> and observes that time is peculiarly preserved in a narrative film; she watches <em>Singin' in the Rain</em> and finds truth and falsehood layered in it like dental veneers; she watches<em> Apocalypse Now</em> and thinks about her father and a certain Pulitzer-winning photograph of an American POW. <em>Out There in the Dark</em> is a dynamic collection of essays that blends film criticism with memoir and fiction as well as lists visual diagrams and Wikipedia collaging. It plumbs deeply some of our most knotted abstract concepts: truth kindness the West the female body war and-inevitably-Hollywood.</p>