{"product_id":"9781555970291","title":"Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For years, I cried, not over my own losses, but at the movies. When bad things happened to me in real life, I didn't react. I seemed cool or indifferent. Yet in the dark and relative safety of the movie theater, I would weep over fictional tragedies, over someone else's tragedy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt age nine, Madelon Sprengnether watched her father drown in the Mississippi River. Her mother swallowed the family's grief whole and no one spoke of the tragedy thereafter. Only years later did Sprengnether react, and in a most unlikely place: in the theater watching the film \u003ci\u003ePather Panchal\u003c\/i\u003ei, by Satyajit Ray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fascinating memoir \u003ci\u003eCrying at the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, Sprengnether looks at the sublime connections between happenings in the present, troubling events from the past, and the imagined world of movies. By examining the films she had intense emotional reactions to throughout her adult life--\u003ci\u003eHouse of Cards\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSolaris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFearless\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cement Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShadowlands\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e--Sprengnether finds a way to work through her own losses, mistakes, and pain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182994538736,"sku":"9781555970291","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555970291_p0.jpg?v=1763760496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555970291","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}