A Cinema of Loneliness Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

by Kolker, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195123500
• ISBN10: 0195123506
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this twentieth-anniversary millennial edition, Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on the directors discussed in the first edition--Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and StevenSpielberg--to include their most important works since 1988, analyzing those films which have made important advances in the directors' careers and which have given cause for rethinking the films that preceded them. Included is a profile of Arthur Penn's career followed by a new comparative studyof Oliver Stone, who mirrors Penn's practice of drawing his films out of historical and ideological currents. Placing the films of Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman in an ideological perspective, Kolker both illuminates their relationship to one another and to larger currents inour culture, and emphasizes the statements their films make about American society and culture. This edition includes a new preface, a requiem for Stanley Kubrick, updated filmography, and 48 images from various films discussed through the text.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	ix
Preface to the Third Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	3	(14)
Body's Montage; History's Mise-En-Scene	17	(80)
Arthur Penn
Oliver Stone
Tectonics of the Mechanical Man	97	(78)
Stanley Kubrick
Expressions of the Streets	175	(72)
Martin Scorsese
Of Dinosaurs and Ships	247	(82)
Steven Spielberg
Radical Surfaces	329	(78)
Robert Altman
Notes	407	(14)
Filmography	421	(44)
Index	465