Beauty Talk & Monsters

Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection ofstories as told through the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and KathyAcker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a childhood and youth nurtured on the fringeof the glittering lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetownin the 1980s. Moving fluidly through space, time, and a range of cinematicframeworks, Tupitsyn cuts through the cynical glamour and illusion of Hollywood to asoft, secret heart.Her narrator, a female loner and traveler, is caught in themaelstrom of films and images, where life is experienced through the eye of a cameralens and seen through the light on the screen. In a precise and elegant style, Beauty Talk & Monsters embraces and confronts a lineage of familiar myths andon- and off-screen cinematic excess in order to challenge the silver screen'scentury of power over our dreams and ideals. Intimate and intellectual, Tupitsyn'sstories play with the cinema's most popular icons and images.