The Call of the Weird
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
A funny, insightful journey into what is so wonderfully weird about America by award-winning documentary film maker Louis Theroux.
Louis Theroux Livres
Louis Theroux est reconnu pour son approche distinctive de la réalisation de documentaires, s'immergeant avec une curiosité sincère dans des sous-cultures et des communautés marginales. Son style se caractérise par l'empathie, associée à une volonté d'exposer les absurdités et les controverses sans jugement ni condescendance. Theroux possède une capacité unique à établir des liens avec des individus d'horizons divers, utilisant son intérêt authentique et sa perplexité occasionnelle teintée d'autodérision pour accéder à des récits authentiques. Son travail incite les spectateurs à réfléchir aux complexités de la nature humaine et aux expériences variées de la vie dans un monde diversifié.
A funny, insightful memoir by much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux, who takes us on a weird and wonderful journey through his life and two decades of groundbreaking television.
For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.Along the way Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people, and considers whether he's learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people he's interviewed, or have they manipulated him? From his Las Vegas base, Louis revisits the assorted dreamers and outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground.Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathological and "normal" weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or "to be yourself"? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?
A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird AmericaFor ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Along the way Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people, and considers whether he's learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people he's interviewed, or have they manipulated him? From his Las Vegas base, Louis revisits the assorted dreamers and outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground. Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathology and 'normal' weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or 'to be yourself'? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?
