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A review by maggierachael
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career by Keith Phipps
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The best way I can describe this is to call it an extended, 200 page Wikipedia article on Cage’s career. Not really anything interesting or noteworthy beyond the basic facts and a gathering of the author’s own personal feelings on a lot of Cage films — most of the text is clearly spent on films in his filmography that Phipps prefers over the bigger releases that probably should’ve been given more dedicated space. (There are whole chapters on films I’ve never heard of, and yet things like Valley Girl and National Treasure get only a passing glance, brushed off by the author as essentially schlock fodder.)
It’s also worth noting that, despite coming out last year, is already deeply out of touch with the trajectory of Cage’s career, dismissing the success of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Pig and arriving slightly too early to include the release of Renfield, all of which have placed him back in the pop culture zeitgeist. Largely a string of film reviews and AV Club features strung together as a book, it’s really nothing worth buying, even if you *really* love Nic Cage.
It’s also worth noting that, despite coming out last year, is already deeply out of touch with the trajectory of Cage’s career, dismissing the success of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Pig and arriving slightly too early to include the release of Renfield, all of which have placed him back in the pop culture zeitgeist. Largely a string of film reviews and AV Club features strung together as a book, it’s really nothing worth buying, even if you *really* love Nic Cage.