A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, AltmanFocussing on five of the most interesting contemporary directors, the author plaes their films in an ideological perspetive that illuminates their relationship to eah other an to larger currents in our culture, and emphasizes the commentary their films make on American society. |
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