Download or read book The Phantom Empire written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.