Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson - Jason Sperb - Books - University of Texas Press - 9781477302217 - December 1, 2013
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Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2013.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; From his film festival debut 'Hard Eight' to ambitious studio epics 'Boogie Nights', 'Magnolia', and 'There Will Be Blood', Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In this work, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson's films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction. White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson Chapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and Narrative Ambiguity in Hard Eight (1996) Chapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in Boogie Nights (1997) Chapter 3. If That Was in a Movie, I Wouldn?t Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in Magnolia (1999) Chapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Chapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) Afterword. On The Master Notes Select Bibliography Index Review Citations:

Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 84 (EAN 9780292752894, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Sperb, Jason Jason Sperb is a lecturer in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 1, 2013
ISBN13 9781477302217
Publishers University of Texas Press
Pages 296
Dimensions 229 × 152 × 21 mm   ·   460 g
Language English  

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