ReFocus : : The Films of Paul Schrader /

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

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 filmm...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
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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

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