A Cinema of LonelinessAn updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn, Scorsese, Stone, Altman, Kubrick--at the book's core. |
Contents
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2 Tectonics of the Mechanical Man | 106 |
3 Expressions of the Streets | 185 |
4 Steven Spielberg War Superheroes and the Digital MiseenScène | 262 |
5 Radical Surfaces and Independent Means | 349 |
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