| Description |
xiv, 188 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Directors' cuts
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Directors' cuts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index. |
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Includes filmography (pages 167-176). |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur / Thomas Schatz -- 2.Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur / Thomas Schatz -- 3.Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerrilla Auteur / Thomas Schatz -- 4.Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective / Thomas Schatz -- 5.Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective / Thomas Schatz -- 6.The (B1)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual Detective / Thomas Schatz -- 7.Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s / Thomas Schatz -- 8.The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy / Thomas Schatz -- 9.Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000s / Thomas Schatz. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Soderbergh, Steven, 1963- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Soderbergh, Steven, 1963- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Tait, R. Colin.
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| ISBN |
9780231165501 acid-free paper |
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0231165501 acid-free paper |
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9780231165518 paperback acid-free paper |
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023116551X paperback acid-free paper |
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9780231850391 ebook |
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0231850395 ebook |
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