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A cinema of loneliness : Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman / Robert Kolker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kolker, Robert Phillip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture plays, American--History and criticism.
- Motion picture plays, American.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 529 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn, Scorsese, Stone, Altman, Kubrick--at the book's core.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Body's montage : history's mise-en-scene : Arthur Penn and Oliver Stone
- Tectonics of the mechanical man : Stanley Kubrick
- Expressions of the streets : Martin Scorsese
- Of dinosaurs and ships
- Radical surfaces : Robert Altman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12125-5
- 9786613121257
- 0-19-978028-5
- OCLC:
- 729872754
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