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Mike Nichols : sex, language, and the reinvention of psychological realism
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, Kyle, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nichols, Mike--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nichols, Mike.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through the study of performer and director Mike Nichols, this book questions the aesthetic-ideological stance against psychological realism. It argues that characters' actions are not just filmed concepts but can be film concepts whose forms resonate politically. Nichols' oeuvre centres on moments when words and gestures cease to mean, or to mean in typical ways. In doing so, it exposes the pretence of tropes that constitute conventionally realist characters, and participates in changes in US cultural attitudes toward language, subjectivity, embodiment, and the social, particularly with regard to sexual politics.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-937584-4
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