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The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh|Andrew Dewaard

The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh : Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

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The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780231165518
  • ISBN-10: 023116551X
  • Publisher: Wallflower Press
  • Publish Date: May 2013
  • Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 256

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