Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career

"In Nicolas Cage’s latest movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the legendary actor plays himself – or rather, a caricature of himself that deconstructs not only his own tumultuous persona but the entire notion of stardom. Age of Cage is a debut book by the veteran pop-culture critic Keith Phipps, and in a way, the book accomplishes much of what Cage’s strange new film does. With a sharp eye and easygoing erudition, Phipps outlines the twists and turns of Cage’s career – from leading man to art house hero to destitute has-been who’d take any role for a buck – and uses that framework as an analog for the massive changes Hollywood has gone through over the past 40 years. Equally witty, incisive and daring, Age of Cage is so good that even Cage himself has praised it."