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Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anders
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
1477302212
ISBN-13
9781477302217
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205972776
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Publication Name
Blossoms and Blood : Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
Language
English
Subject
Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
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., 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., 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., 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.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/33092
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 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 Index
Synopsis
Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr, From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson's films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world. Blossoms and Blood explores Anderson's films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America's changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson's work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson's work, Blossoms and Blood reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture., From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights , Magnolia , and There Will Be Blood , Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood , Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson's films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world. Blossoms and Blood explores Anderson's films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America's changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson's work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson's work, Blossoms and Blood reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture.
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.A5255S64
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