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Neil Jordan
Maria T. Pramaggiore
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Description for Neil Jordan
Paperback. An Irish director of dark narratives with a postmodern sense of irony Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 216 pages, 21 photos. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes.
Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes ... Read more
Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes.
Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075308
SKU
V9780252075308
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About Maria T. Pramaggiore
Maria Pramaggiore is a professor at Maynooth University. She is the author of Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 and coauthor (with Tom Wallis) of Film: A Critical Introduction, third edition.
Reviews for Neil Jordan
"This book is a brilliant treatment of perhaps the most important contemporary Irish filmmaker. Under Pramaggiore's keen scrutiny, a career that might have seemed diffuse emerges as remarkably coherent, even while Pramaggiore's scrupulous attention to nuance never slights the differences across Jordan's films. An exceptional contribution to film studies."
James Morrison, author of Roman Polanski
James Morrison, author of Roman Polanski