The Complete Matinee Junkie: Five Years At The Movies
by Jordan Jeffries Author
The Complete Matinee Junkie collects the entire run of Jordan Jeffries' ongoing comic series, plus a full year of new material. Part autobiography, part cultural review, Matinee Junkie contains entries for every movie the author saw in theaters each year, with the complete collection spanning almost 250 movies over five years, from 2013-2017. In-depth rants about bland cinematography and stories of nightmarish theater experiences combine with five years' worth of autobiography, reflecting the way our own lives intersect with the stories we love to lose ourselves in.
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Comments & Reviews
1) Members of libertarian/ socialist/ anarchist groups in 1960s Britian disbanded, splintered, reformed and switched teams more than Dischord bands did back in1988.
2) Though not entirely, the majority of this book actually consists of Maurice Brinton's creative translations of Cornelius Castoriades's writings in French for Solidarity, a magazine/ pamphlet outlet/ activist group with which Brinton was involved with for years.
3) Brinton is at his best when he manages to merge political theory with personal experience - his diary entries from both the Belgian General Strike of 1960 and yeah, his two-weeks spent in Paris in May of 1968 are prime examples- when he writes like this, Brinton is able to build a body out of a working skeleton of political theory and the flesh-and-blood, I-was-there quality of eyewitness testimony, something that's practically necessary if you want to keep the attention of a reader with my less-than-working knowledge of socialism and/or libertarianism.
4) As a whole, I admire AK Press - as an anarchist publishing house it's seemingly indefatiguable, one that's done an incredible amount to resuscitate and reprint old (but still valid and important) texts and collections and make them available to a new readership.