Book Synopsis
In this thematic sequel to the author’s 2021 collection “Cinema Paronomasia,” which has sold nearly four copies since its publication, film posters once again are the subject. This time, though, the electronic spirits of a dozen or so eminent artists and illustrators have been enlisted—conscripted, really—to generate these artworks as “Midjourney,” an AI gorged on tens of millions of images scraped from the internet, “imagines” they might render them. The results range from intriguing to grotesque, but for even the most preposterous examples, as the epigraph notes, “you are surprised to find it done at all.”