A Critical Companion To Terry Gilliam
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Author | : Sabine Planka |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666912263 |
A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.
Author | : Claire Parkinson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 179365252X |
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original essays that examine all his films including his short films. It is structured into three sections that deal broadly with themes of narrative and time; collaborations and relationships; and ideology, politics, and genre. The authors of the sixteen chapters include established Nolan scholars as well as academics with expertise in approaches and perspectives germane to the study of Nolan's body of work. To these ends, the chapters employ intersectional, feminist, political, ideological, narrative, economic, aesthetic, genre, and auteur analysis in addition to perspectives from star theory, short film theory, performance studies, fan studies, adaptation studies, musicology, and media industry studies.
Author | : Matthew Hodge |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2023-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666936693 |
A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor is the most updated and holistic volume on the director currently published. Situating Taymor’s work within the intersections of story and spectacle, contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Taymor’s oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity. The result reveals Julie Taymor to be a globally-influenced American director who exhibits and exemplifies the authentic artistry of ingenious storytelling and deserves scholarly attention. This work will be of particular interest to scholars of film, philosophy, popular culture, gender, feminisms, and queer identities.
Author | : Paulette Richards |
Publisher | : Gem Online |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780313326509 |
This insightful analysis explores the tremendous cross-over appeal of Terry McMillan's novels and movie adaptations.
Author | : Paulette Richards |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313305048 |
Presents critical analyses of each of Terry McMillan's novels, including "Mama," "Disappearing Acts," "Waiting to Exhale," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"; and includes biographical information about the author.
Author | : Adam Barkman |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1498552730 |
Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for both scholars and fans alike the entire artistic career of Burton, giving attention to both his early works and his global blockbusters.
Author | : John Reilly |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated. Readers were initiated into the world of the modern cowboy with McMurtry's first novel Horseman Pass By. Nearly 35 years later McMurtry revisits his hometown project with his latest update on the characters who populated The Last Picture Show and Texasville in his most recent novel Duane's Depressed. This Critical Companion examines all 22 of McMurtry's works. By considering individual literary elements and overall construction of the novels, this analysis probes how McMurtry has given contemporary relevance to traditional elements of the Western story.
Author | : Susan Farrell |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 143810023X |
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.
Author | : Thomas Marvin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313006792 |
With a career spanning 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most prolific and popular American writers of the 20th century. Though his works have often met with mixed reviews, and have been difficult to categorize, his status of cultural icon and one of the most important contemporary novelists is well established. This critical companion, perfect for students, skillfully guides readers through seven of Vonnegut's most important novels including Player Piano (1952), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Slaughterhouse Five (1969). A full chapter is devoted to each work, with clear analysis of plot, character development, thematic concerns, symbolism, and a close critical reading. A chapter on the life of Kurt Vonnegut gives an up-to-date biography, with interesting details relating the facts of his life to his writings. The Literary Contexts section, devoted to examining issues of genre, influences and themes in Vonnegut's writing, adds to a fuller understanding of the man and his literary works. This exceptionally well-written Critical Companion will help students and interested readers appreciate Vonnegut's most important and popular novels. Close critical readings offer feminist, Marxist, and new historicist perspectives on these works. A bibliography helps students undertaking research identify additional sources for biographical and critical information, and provides reviews and a comprehensive list of Vonnegut's publications to date.
Author | : Adam Barkman |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2024-02-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1666937746 |
The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson’s work, treating this prolific but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher. From The Man Without a Face and Braveheart to The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge, this interdisciplinary collection mines Gibson’s life and oeuvre for insight into existential problems, Aristotelian virtues, the politics of film, interreligious dialogue, adaptation issues, and much more.