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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jason SperbPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292752894ISBN 10: 029275289 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 01 December 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson Chapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and Narrative Ambiguity in Hard Eight (1996) Chapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in Boogie Nights (1997) Chapter 3. If That Was in a Movie, I Wouldn’t Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in Magnolia (1999) Chapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Chapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) Afterword. On The Master Notes Select Bibliography IndexReviewsJason Sperb is not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. He's something much better-an intelligent critic trying to discern what's valuable and what's not in Anderson's body of cinematic work. -- David Luhrssen Milwaukee Express Blossoms & Blood, Jason Sperb's very strong new book, doesn't so much argue the case for PTA's greatness as show, slowly and methodically, how he moved through and within the ranks of American filmmaking-a case study of how even the most self-determined directors are always borne aloft by cultural events. CIneaste Sperb has complete mastery of the critical and industrial histories of the films. Choice Jason Sperb is not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. He's something much better-an intelligent critic trying to discern what's valuable and what's not in Anderson's body of cinematic work. Milwaukee Express Blossoms Blood, Jason Sperb's very strong new book, doesn't so much argue the case for PTA's greatness as show, slowly and methodically, how he moved through and within the ranks of American filmmaking-a case study of how even the most self-determined directors are always borne aloft by cultural events. CIneaste Sperb has complete mastery of the critical and industrial histories of the films. Choice Jason Sperb is not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. He's something much better - an intelligent critic trying to discern what's valuable and what's not in Anderson's body of cinematic work. - Milwaukee Express Author InformationJason Sperb is a lecturer in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |