The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh - Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16550-1
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dewaard, Andrew

Tait, R. Colin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schatz, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsPreface by Thomas SchatzIntroductionPart One: Author, Brand, Guerrilla1. The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur2. Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur3. Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerrilla AuteurPart Two: History, Memory, Text4. Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective5. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective6. The (Bl)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual DetectivePart Three: Crime, Capital, Globalisation7. Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s8. The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy9. Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000sConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Schatz, Thomas
Tom Schatz is a Professor and Chair of the department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. His books include Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System (McGraw Hill, 1981) and The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (Minnesota 2010).

Andrew deWaard is a PhD student at UCLA, whose recent work regards media industries, digital humanities and screen synergy. His latest work can be viewed at andrewdewaard.com

R. Colin Tait is a PhD Candidate at UT Austin, whose recent publications include work on genre cycles, television, authorship and Robert De Niro. His latest work can be viewed at rcolintait.com

Thomas Schatz, is Professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written four books on American film (and edited many others), including The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era and Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. His recent scholarly works include lead essays in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry (2008), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009), and Volume IV: 1976 to the Present, in Blackwell's History of American Film (2010).