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The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place
Deane Williams
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Paperback. Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, ... Read more
Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Directors' Cuts
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231176255
SKU
V9780231176255
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About Deane Williams
Deane Williams is associate professor in film and screen studies at Monash University in Melbourne. He is editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film and coauthor (with Noel King and Con Verevis) of Australian Film Theory and Criticism.
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