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Derek Hill - Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers - 9781842432532 - V9781842432532
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Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers

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Description for Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.

Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic forebears - the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others - did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back ... Read more

Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realised, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new breed of American film captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be. This book analyzes and traces the origins of the pivotal films and directors in this undeclared war on the mundane.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
No Exit United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842432532
SKU
V9781842432532
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13

About Derek Hill
Derek Hill has written for numerous web sites and publications such as The Third Alternative, Video Watchdog and The All-Movie Guide, and was a contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Derek currently lives in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Reviews for Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers
Hill's subjects - including Michel Gondry and Sofia Coppola - are covered in an admirably authoritative, fluid way [four stars]
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
Do the surreal and subversive visions of Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, et al constitute a movement on a par with the 'Movie Brats' of the 1970s and the Nouvelle Vague?
... Read more

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