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The cinema of Steven Soderbergh : indie sex, corporate lies, and digital videotape / Andrew deWaard & R. Colin Tait.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeWaard, Andrew, Author.
- Series:
- Directors' Cuts
- Directors' cuts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soderbergh, Steven, 1963---Criticism and interpretation.
- Soderbergh, Steven.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wallflower, 2013.
- London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface / Schatz, Thomas
- Introduction
- PART ONE: AUTHOR, BRAND, GUERRILLA
- 1. The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur
- 2. Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur
- 3. Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerrilla Auteur
- PART TWO: HISTORY, MEMORY, TEXT
- 4. Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective
- 5. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective
- 6. The (Bl)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual Detective
- PART THREE: CRIME, CAPITAL, GLOBALISATION
- 7. Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s
- 8. The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy
- 9. Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000s
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index.
- Includes filmography (p. 167-176).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780231850391
- 0231850395
- OCLC:
- 854970031
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