The Spanish Prisoner / / Yannis Tzioumakis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tzioumakis, Yannis,
• MitwirkendeR: Needham, Gary,; Tzioumakis, Yannis,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American Indies : AMIN
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: ‘You don’t know who anyone is’ --; 1. From Independent to ‘Indie’ Cinema --; 2. David Mamet and ‘Indie’ Cinema --; 3. ‘Indie’ Film at Work: Producing and Distributing The Spanish Prisoner --; 4. ‘That’s what you just think you saw!’ Narrative and Film Style in The Spanish Prisoner --; 5. Playing with Cinema: The Master of the Con Game Film --; Conclusion --; Filmography: David Mamet in American Cinema and Television --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748633708; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748633708?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yannis Tzioumakis.

Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly idiosyncratic film that betrays its origin outside the Hollywood mainstream. Featuring a convoluted narrative, an excessive, often anti-classical, visual style, and belonging to the generic category of the'con game film' which often challenges the spectator's cognitive skills, The Spanish Prisoner is a film that bridges genre filmmaking withpersonal visual style, independent film production with niche distribution,and mainstream subject matter with unconventional filmic techniques.This book discusses The Spanish Prisoner as an example of contemporary American independent cinema while also using the film as a vehicle to explore several key ideas in film studies, especially in terms of aesthetics, narrative, style, spectatorship, genre and industry.Key FeaturesDistinguishes between independent and 'indie' cinema through anexamination of the 'classics divisions,' especially Sony Pictures ClassicsAssesses the position of David Mamet within American cinemaIntroduces the genre categories of the 'con artist' and the 'con game' film and discusses The Spanish Prisoner as a key example of the latterExamines the ways in which narrative, narration and visual style deviate from the mainstream/classical aestheticYannis Tzioumakis Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at theUniversity of Liverpool.