The cinema of Oliver Stone / Norman Kagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagan, Norman, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone, Oliver--Criticism and interpretation.

Stone, Oliver.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Oliver Stone

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 1995.

Summary:

Oliver Stone has been hailed (and reviled) as the "director of the Sixties" for his socially concerned and politically charged films on Vietnam, Latin America, Wall Street, pop music, the JFK assassination, and the intertwined nature of celebrity and violence in American culture. Giving particular attention to Stone's stormy relationship with the Establishment and his dazzling cinematic techniques, film scholar Norman Kagan examines all of the controversial director's work. The Cinema of Oliver Stone shows how the movies were inspired, how they were made, and what the critics' - and other filmmakers' - reactions have been. By including analyses of films Stone worked on as a writer but not as director (Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, and others), we get a complete look at the man and his work.

Notes:

Filmography: pages [269]-273.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0826408176

OCLC:

31519072