The Sundance Kids; How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood

by James Mottram

• ISBN13: 9780571222674
• ISBN10: 0571222676
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-05-16
• Publisher: Faber & Faber

Summary

"In The Sundance Kids, James Mottram paints a vibrant portrait of Hollywood as it stands today. Focusing on writers and directors who made their debuts in the nineties, Mottram takess a close look at how these mavericks have impacted the cinematic landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

James Mottram is the author of The Making of Memento (Faber, 2002). He lives in London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations,	ix
Acknowledgments,	xii
Introduction: Pizza Knights, F-64 and The Mild Bunch,	xiii
Section I: The Sundance Years
1 It's All Downhill from Here': How Steven Soderbergh Paves the Way for the Next Generation,	3	(12)
2 Talk Is Cheap: Sundance After sex, lies, and videotape,	15	(12)
3 Reservoir Dogs and the Class of '92,	27	(10)
4 The Changing Face of Sundance: Public Access and Spanking the Monkey,	37	(14)
5 'Trespassing on Hallowed Ground': Kafka and King of the Hill,	51	(16)
Section II: Indiewood
6 Pulp Fact: The Rise of Miramax as Hollywood Embraces Tarantino-mania,	67	(18)
7 Austin Power: How Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater Bucked the System,	85	(20)
8 Genre I: Crime Does Pay – The Underneath, The Usual Suspects and Se7en,	105	(20)
9 The Second Wave: The Conflicts of Citizen Ruth, Hard Eight and Bottle Rocket,	125	(24)
10 Spreading Propaganda: The Rise of David Fincher and Spike Jonze,	149	(20)
11 Beyond the Fringe: Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy,	169	(16)
12 Adult Entertainment: Hollywood Grows Up with Boogie Nights,	185	(18)
13 Genre II: School Days – Election, Rushmore and Apt Pupil,	203	(22)
14 Adaptation: Tarantino and Soderbergh Meet Elmore Leonard,	225	(18)
15 The Sundance Sisters: Sofia Coppola and Kimberly Peirce,	243	(12)
16 Annus Mirabilis: How 1999 Became the Year of the Sundance Kids,	255	(30)
Section III: The Insiders
17 King of the Hills: Soderbergh Comes Back from the Brink,	285	(20)
18 The X-Man: Bryan Singer Takes on the Blockbuster,	305	(12)
19 Being Charlie Kaufman: How One Man Tried to Debunk the Three-Act Structure,	317	(22)
20 Family Ties: The Royal Tenenbaums, About Schmidt and Punch-Drunk Love,	339	(20)
21 The Failure of F-64: Soderbergh and Fincher Face the Firing Line,	359	(20)
22 Top of the Bill: Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson Find Their Muse,	379	(18)
23 Middle-Age Malaise: Kill Bill and Ocean's Twelve,	397	(16)
24 Lit Up by the Searchlight: I Huckabees and Sideways,	413	(22)
Epilogue: Bursting the Bubble,	435	(12)
Notes,	447	(6)
General Index,	453	(18)
Index of Films,	471

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