The Cinema of Sean Penn : In and Out of Place / Deane Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Deane, author.

Series:

Directors' cuts.

Directors' Cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn, Sean, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Penn, Sean.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, and directors, and the political lineage to which Penn belongs, which reveal the deep cultural structures that concern each particular film.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Politics

2. Penn's Performance Places

3. The Indian Runner

4. The Crossing Guard

5. The Pledge

6. Interlude: 'U.S.A.'

7. Into the Wild

Conclusion: Places of Hope

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmographies, bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850858

0231850859

OCLC:

984661925