Sumario: | Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation 'Hard Eight', Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature 'Punch-Drunk Love' radically reimagined the romantic comedy. Critics hailed 'There Will Be Blood' as a key film of the new millennium. In 'The Master', Anderson jarred audiences with dreamy amorphousness and a departure from conventional story mechanics. Acclaimed film scholar and screenwriter George Toles approaches these three films in particular, and Anderson's oeuvre in general, with a focus on the role of emergence and the production of the unaccountable.
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