A Cinema of Loneliness

by Robert Kolker

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199910533
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Robert 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to First EditionPreface to Fourth EditoinAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Body's Montage, History's Mise-en-Scene, Contours of the Horizontal Line, Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, and David FincherChapter Two. Tectonics of the Mechanical Man, Stanley KubrickChapter Three. Expressions of the Streets, Martin ScorseseChapter Four. Steven Spielberg, War, Superheroes, and the Digital Mise-en-SceneChapter Five. Radical Surfaces and Independent Means, Robert Altman

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

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