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A cinema of loneliness [electronic resource]

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An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn, Scorsese, Stone, Altman, Kubrick--at the book's core.

Title A cinema of loneliness [electronic resource] : Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman / Robert Kolker.
Edition 4th ed.
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
English
Content Introduction -- Body's montage : history's mise-en-scene : Arthur Penn and Oliver Stone -- Tectonics of the mechanical man : Stanley Kubrick -- Expressions of the streets : Martin Scorsese -- Of dinosaurs and ships -- Radical surfaces : Robert Altman.
Extent 1 online resource (xii, 529 p.) : ill.
Language English
National Library system number 997010717251105171
MARC RECORDS
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