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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Edition: 4th Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 1.125kg ISBN: 9780199738885ISBN 10: 0199738882 Pages: 568 Publication Date: 11 August 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface to First Edition Preface to Fourth Edition 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 MeansReviewsAn excellent work of film criticism, and as such, demands response and debate....Kolker's analyses of each director's work...are stimulating, provocative, insightful and passionate, models of film analysis. --San Francisco Review of Books Brings the films into clearer focus for film-goers. The filmmakers themselves will find Kolker's analysis of their works extremely accurate. --Martin Scorsese The best book on contemporary American film . --The Washington Post Book World <br> An excellent work of film criticism, and as such, demands response and debate....Kolker's analyses of each director's work...are stimulating, provocative, insightful and passionate, models of film analysis. --San Francisco Review of Books<p><br> Brings the films into clearer focus for film-goers. The filmmakers themselves will find Kolker's analysis of their works extremely accurate. --Martin Scorsese<p><br> The best book on contemporary American film . --The Washington Post Book World<p><br> Author InformationRobert 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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