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Paul Schrader

  • ISBN-13: 9780252075087
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By George Kouvaros
  • Price: AUD $51.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2008
  • Format: Paperback (210.00mm X 140.00mm) 184 pages Weight: 260g
  • Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]
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As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines how Schrader creates a cinema driven by issues of obsession, memory, estrangement, violence, and guilt. Representative of a new generation of American writer-directors of the 1970s, Schrader's films highlight the tension between old and new ways of telling a story and between the maintenance of commercial formulas and openness to individual expression. George Kouvaros draws on a personal interview conducted with Schrader and the director's prior commentary to trace common motivations and impulses behind such well-known films as Light Sleeper, American Gigolo, Affliction, Auto Focus, Taxi Driver, and Patty Hearst.
''A much-needed source for those interested in Paul Schrader. This stimulating and engaging work illuminates his career and provides incisive analysis of his films, making it an especially valuable contribution to the field.'' Cynthia Lucia, author of Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film This book summarizes the films, highlighting the themes and preoccupations which hold together an oeuvre that spans diverse genres and styles...an absorbing body of work that deserves more critical attention. - Mathew Taunton, Times Literary Journal
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