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danhf 's review for:
dark
slow-paced
It shouldn't be that hard for an experienced writer to put together a solid book that doesn't set out to do much more than map out the basic cultural, social, and political context of America in the early 1970s to contextualize the horrors of this historic film. But like some kind of writerly Sideshow Bob, Lanza can't help but step on an endless variety of rakes that hit him squarely in the face – from his bizarre obsession with Alice Cooper to his endless reactionary haranguing of every early voice to engage with environmentalism or civil rights to the most basic errors of grammar, phrasing, and punctuation. Just as a random example, he uses the word "albeit" four times within the first two sentences of a paragraph before going on to describe Linda Blair's head making a "350-degree turn" [sic] on the following page. Sadly, the end result an incoherent and poorly written monograph by someone who vastly overestimates his own abilities, lacking the kind of research chops or rhetorical strength to give this any kind of weight as a meaningful reflection on this important film.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism