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Paul Thomas Anderson : masterworks / Adam Nayman ; foreword by the Safdie Brothers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nayman, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anderson, Paul Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.
- Anderson, Paul Thomas.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, chiefly color
- Other Title:
- PTA masterworks
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Abrams ; [London] : Little White Lies, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as "one of American film's modern masters" and "the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation." Anderson's films have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time, including Lesley Ann Manville, Julianne Moore, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, Anderson's entire career--from Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), and The Phantom Thread (2017) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short films--is examined in illustrated detail for the first time. Anderson's influences, his style, and the recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by firsthand interviews with Anderson's closest collaborators--including producer JoAnne Sellar, actor Vicky Krieps, and composer Jonny Greenwood--and illuminated by film stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic. Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world.
- Contents:
- Works. Chapter 1: There will be blood ; Chapter 2: The master ; Chapter 3: Inherent vice ; Chapter 4: Boogie nights ; Chapter 5: Hard eight ; Chapter 6: Magnolia ; Chapter 7: Punch-drunk love ; Chapter 8: Phantom thread
- Interviews. JoAnne Sellar ; Dylan Tichenor ; Robert Elswit ; Jonny Greenwood ; Jack Fisk ; Mark Bridges ; Vicky Krieps.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-287) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781683359166
- 168335916X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030284708
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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