In the good seats: Essays on film is an arresting new collection of essays featuring some of the most talented writers working today, setting their sights on what’s so alluring and moving about film and cinema. A childhood film encountered on the big screen, a favourite celluloid instant, a resonating discovery, an awkward first date; the threadbare seats, the click and whirr of the projector, the sense of scale expanding.

Each essayist in this extensive collection unearths those particularly breathless and unforgettable moments when their lives were touched by film. Like a projection of light beaming across a darkened hall, In the good seats, pulls us closer to those flickers of magic that film and cinema usher forth.

With contributions by Darran Anderson, Maggie Armstrong, Dodie Bellamy, Susannah Dickey, Maria Fusco, Francis Halsall, Daisy Lafarge, Michael Magee, Ian Maleney, Toye Oladinni, K Patrick, Devika Ponnambalam, Ali Smith, and Cathy Sweeney.

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Publication date: March 2025
Publicity: peteroconnellmedia@gmail.com
EXTS: 11 × 17.5 cm, 176 pp, softcover
ISBN: 978-1-9161509-6-6
Design: Daly & Lyon
RRP: €15 / £13

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