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"""A perfect treatise on one of cinema's most original auteurs. It's filled with fascinating insights and thoughtful analysis that will delight fans of De Palma's work. Bouzereau proves once again that he is one of our greatest film writers.This book belongs on every cinephile's shelf!""--Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One ""A singular voice in a generation of 'Pure Cinema' practitioners, De Palma remains more complex, personal, and deep a filmmaker than most. Laurent Bouzereau's The De Palma Decade does a terrific job at parting the veil on one of De Palma's most prodigious periods and witnessing the birth of an American auteur that managed to manipulate, enchant, and terrify audiences worldwide. Beyond genre, beyond all definition, this is an indispensable text for all those of us intent in deciphering the master.""--Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker ""As a devotee of De Palma who has pored over every frame of the operatic cinema discussed in The De Palma Decade, I was thrilled that there was even more to learn about the Master of the Macabre. An essential book about every facet of honing these masterpieces, it's meticulous, brilliantly structured, stylish, and endlessly fascinating, much like De Palma himself.""--Edgar Wright, writer/director ""Both unabashed De Palma fan and discerning critic, Laurent Bouzereau delivers riveting detail and fresh insight into a transformative era for film and one of its most fascinating figures. The De Palma Decade is delightfully obsessive.""--Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy ""Laurent Bouzereau has written an enthralling overview that's as much a fascinating examination of the author as it is of his subject. Yet he always keeps De Palma, and the power of his work, in the center of the frame. We feel the love of cinema that connects this pair.""--Elvis Mitchell, host of The Treatment, KCRW"

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Laurent Bouzereau is an award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author. His credits include the HBO feature documentaries Mama's Boy, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black, and Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, and the acclaimed Netflix series Five Came Back (with an Emmy winning narration by Meryl Streep), executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Bouzereau has produced and directed numorous benchmark behind-the-scenes documentaries, and is the author of several books on cinema, including The De Palma Decade, Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years, The Art of Bond, and Hitchcock: Piece by Piece. Laurent and his husband Markus Keith run Nedland Media, a production company based in Los Angeles. Together, they develop and produce both scripted and non-scripted projects, as well as brand marketing for all the major studios.

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