234mm x 156mm 272 pages 24 b&w illustration(s) ReFocus: The American Directors Series Published June 2020 ISBN Hardback: 9781474462037 Recommend to your Librarian Request a Review Copy ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6204-4 (ISBN)

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Paul Schrader’s unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays – one of the first collections to assess Schrader’s contributions to directing, screenwriting and criticism – includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a chapter-length interview with Schrader himself, conducted by the editors.

Providing a comprehensive exploration of his groundbreaking achievements in cinema, the book considers Schrader’s more overlooked films and provides new insights to their connection with his celebrated work in direction and screenwriting such as Taxi Driver (1976), Cat People (1982) and The Comfort of Strangers (1990).

Michelle E. Moore, Professor, College of DuPage. Brian Brems, Associate Professor, College of DuPage.

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction: Taxi Driver Forward - Brian Brems and Michelle E. Moore

Schrader and Style - Erik M. Bachman

Movement and Meaning: The "unmotivated" Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader - Deborah Allison

Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons - BillyStevenson

"Thinking White:" Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar - Scott Balcerzak

Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader's Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ - Erica Moulton

"So I find another form of expression": Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Thomas Prasch

Schrader’s Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst - Brian Brems

Paul Schrader’s Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System - Robert Dassanowsky

"Just Being Transparent Baby": Surveillance Culture, Digitization and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader’s The Canyons - James Slaymaker

"Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation": Paul Schrader’s Eco-Theology in First Reformed - Tatiana Prorokova

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed - Robert Ribera

Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems on 9/27/2018 at the Rail Line Diner, NY

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	ReFocus: The American Directors Series
Zusatzinfo	24 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-6204-9 / 1474462049
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6204-4 / 9781474462044
Zustand	Neuware