A cinema of loneliness : Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman
"Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman - towering names of filmmakers who have defined modern American cinema. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Kolker continues his inquiry into the cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on these directors to include their most important works since 1988. Here, he analyzes those films that have made important advances in their careers and that have given cause for rethinking the films that preceded them. Included is a profile of Arthur Penn's career, followed by a new comparative study of Oliver Stone, who mirrors Penn's practice of drawing his films out of historical and ideological currents." "Placing the films of these influential artists in an ideological perspective, Kolker both illuminates their relationship to one another and to larger currents in our culture and emphasizes the statements their films make about American society. This edition includes a new preface, an epitaph for Stanley Kubrick, updated filmography, and ninety images from various films discussed through the text."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 484 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195123500, 9780195123494, 0195123506, 0195123492
1022606851
1. Body's Montage; History's Mise-En-Scene: Arthur Penn and Oliver Stone
2. Tectonics of the Mechanical Man: Stanley Kubrick
3. Expressions of the Streets: Martin Scorsese
4. Of Dinosaurs and Ships: Steven Spielberg, Large Things, and the Digital Mise-En-Scene
5. Radical Surfaces: Robert Altman