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The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon Peter C Kunze
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The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon
Peter C Kunze
Wes Anderson's films can be divisive, but he is widely recognized as the inspiration for several recent trends in indie films. Using both practical and theoretical lenses, the contributors address and explain the recurring stylistic techniques, motifs, and themes that dominate Anderson's films and have had such an impact on current filmmaking.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Peter C. Kunze is Lecturer in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA. His research examines comedy, masculinity, and childhood across literature, film, and new media. Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Wonderful Worlds of Wes Anderson / Peter C. Kunze -- Part 1 1. The Short Films of Wes Anderson / Nicole Richter -- 2. Cast of Characters: Wes Anderson and Pure Cinematic Characterization / Kim Wilkins -- 3. The Jellyfish and the Moonlight: Imagining the Family in Wes Anderson's Films / Steven Rybin -- 4. Max Fischer Presents: Wes Anderson and the Theatricality of Mourning / Rachel Joseph -- 5. Who's to Say?: The Role of Pets in Wes Anderson's Films / C. Ryan Knight -- 6. American Empirical Time and Space: The (In) Visibility of Popular Culture in the Films of Wes Anderson / Jason Davids Scott -- Part 2 7. From the Mixed-Up Films of Mr. Wesley W Anderson: Children's Literature as Intertexts / Peter C. Kunze -- 8. A Shared Approach to Familial Dysfunction and Sound Design: Wes Andersons Influence on the Films of Noah Baumbach / Jennifer O'Meara -- 9. Bill Murray and Wes Anderson, or the Curmudgeon as Muse / Colleen Kennedy-Karpat -- 10. Life on Mars or Life on the Sea: Seu Jorge, David Bowie, and the Musical World in Wes Andersons The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou / Lara Hrycaj -- Part 3 11. The Andersonian, the Quirky, and Innocence / James MacDowell -- 12. I Always Wanted to Be a Tenenbaum: Class Mobility as Neoliberal Fantasy in Wes Andersons The Royal Tenenbaums / Jen Hedler Phillis -- 13. Objects/Desire/Oedipus: Wes Anderson as Late-Capitalist Auteur / Joshua Gooch -- 14. Systems Thinking in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom / Laura Shackelford -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Review Citations:
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 452 (EAN 9781137403117, Hardcover)
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781137403117 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 226 |
| Dimensions | 142 × 223 × 18 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Kunze, P. |
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