Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of Emeritus Professor of English

A Cinema of Loneliness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, Kolker reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, as he examines works like Munich, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, and Funny People, in addition to classics by Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 4 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9780199730025
• ISBN-10: 0199730024
• Artikelnr.: 34225462

Autorenporträt

Robert Kolker is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous works on film and media, including The Altering Eye; Film, Form, and Culture; and Media Studies: An Introductory Textbook.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to First Edition
* Preface to Fourth Editoin
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter One: Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, and David Fincher: Body's
Montage, History's Mise-en-Scene, Contours of the Horizontal Line
* Chapter Two: Stanley Kubrick: Tectonics of the Mechanical Man
* Chapter Three: Martin Scorsese: Expressions of the Streets
* Chapter Four: Steven Spielberg, War, Superheroes, and the Digital
Mise-en-Scene
* Chapter Five: Robert Altman: Radical Surfaces and Independent Means