ReFocus : : The Films of Paul Schrader / / Michelle E. Moore, Brian Brems.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Michelle E.,; Brems, Brian,
• MitwirkendeR: Allison, Deborah,; Bachman, Erik M.,; Balcerzak, Scott,; Brems, Brian,; Dassanowsky, Robert,; Moore, Michelle E.,; Moulton, Erica,; Prasch, Thomas,; Prorokova, Tatiana,; Ribera, Robert,; Slaymaker, James,; Stevenson, Billy,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

Offers the first comprehensive academic text to explore Paul Schrader’s film career through analysis of his directing, screenwriting, and film criticismContains a chapter-length interview, in which Schrader examines the arc of his career for the first time and revises previous statements about filmmaking and film criticismProvides a valuable update to previous texts on SchraderConsiders Schrader’s overlooked films and provides new insight into their connections with Schrader’s better known filmsContains chapters on Schrader’s work since 2008, the publication date of the last book on his filmmakingPaul 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).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Taxi Driver Forward -- Part I: Ideas, Influences, and Intellect -- 1. Schrader and Style -- 2. Movement and Meaning: The “Unmotivated” Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader -- 3. Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons -- Part II: Instincts, Investigation, and Innovation -- 4. “Thinking White”: Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar -- 5. Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader’s Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ -- 6. “So I Found Another Form of Expression”: Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters -- 7. Schrader’s Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst -- 8. Paul Schrader’s Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System -- 9. “Just Being Transparent Baby”: Surveillance Culture, Digitization, and Self-regulation in Paul Schrader’s The Canyons -- 10. “Every Act of Preservation is an Act of Creation”: Paul Schrader’s Eco-theology in First Reformed -- 11. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed -- Part III: Interview -- 12. Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems on 9/27/2018 at the Rail Line Diner, NYC -- Filmography -- Criticism and Selected Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index