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A Cinema of Loneliness Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)

A Cinema of Loneliness By Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)

A Cinema of Loneliness by Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)

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In this updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, Kolker reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, as he examines works like Munich, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, and Funny People, in addition to classics by Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman.

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A Cinema of Loneliness by Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)

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.

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"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

About Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)

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 Edition ; Preface to Fourth Edition ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter One Body's Montage, History's Mise-en-Scene, Contours of the Horizontal Line ; Chapter Two Tectonics of the Mechanical Man ; Chapter Three Expressions of the Streets ; Chapter Four Steven Spielberg, War, Superheroes, and the Digital Mise-en-Scene ; Chapter Five Radical Surfaces and Independent Means

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NPB9780199738885
9780199738885
0199738882
A Cinema of Loneliness by Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)
Robert Kolker (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, Charlottesville, VA)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2011-08-11
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