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Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson /
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 Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic a...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.