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02754aam a2200385 i 4500 001 E08F6460BCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230307010117 008 220118t20222022mnu e b 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2022930739 020 $a 1644452006 020 $a 9781644452004 040 $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PS3613.O538 $b P74 2022 082 04 $a 818.6 $2 23/eng/20221104 100 1 $a Monson, Ander, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Predator : $b a memoir, a movie, an obsession / $c Ander Monson. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Graywolf Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 249 pages ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, White, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply into his adolescence in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Riyadh, his role as a father and the loss of his own mother, and his friendships with men bound by the troubled camaraderie depicted in action and sci-fi blockbusters. Along with excursions into the conflicted pleasures of cosplay and first-person shooters, he imagines himself beside the poet and memoirist Paul Monette, who wrote the novelization of the movie while his partner was dying of AIDS. A sincere and playful book that lovingly dissects the film, Predator also offers questions and critiques of masculinity, fandom, and their interrelation with acts of mass violence. In a stirring reversal, one chapter exposes Monson through the Predator's heat-seeking vision, asking him, "What do you know about the workings of the hidden world?" As Monson brings us into the brilliant depths of the film and its universe, the hunt begins."--Publisher. 630 00 $a Predator (Motion picture : 1987) $x Miscellanea. 600 10 $a Monson, Ander, $d 1975- $e author. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 630 07 $a Predator (Motion picture : 1987) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01790317. 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896. 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921748. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010651.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E08F6460BCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search