The Cinema of Sean Penn - In and Out of Place

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17625-5
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 237 g

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, and directors, and the political lineage to which Penn belongs, which reveal the deep cultural structures that concern each particular film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Deane

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

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Politics2. Penn's Performance Places3. The Indian Runner4. The Crossing Guard5. The Pledge6. Interlude: 'U.S.A.'7. Into the WildConclusion: Places of HopeFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Deane Williams is associate professor in film and screen studies at Monash University in Melbourne. He is editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film and coauthor (with Noel King and Con Verevis) of Australian Film Theory and Criticism.