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Brian De Palma´s Split-Screen: A Life in Film
Douglas Keesey
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Description for Brian De Palma´s Split-Screen: A Life in Film
Paperback. A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director Num Pages: 364 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood history. De Palma helped launch the careers of such prominent actors as Robert De Niro, John Travolta, and Sissy Spacek (who was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in Carrie). Indeed Quentin Tarantino named Blow Out as one of his top three favorite films, praising De Palma as the best living American director. Picketed by feminists protesting its depictions ... Read more
Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood history. De Palma helped launch the careers of such prominent actors as Robert De Niro, John Travolta, and Sissy Spacek (who was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in Carrie). Indeed Quentin Tarantino named Blow Out as one of his top three favorite films, praising De Palma as the best living American director. Picketed by feminists protesting its depictions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496809728
SKU
V9781496809728
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About Douglas Keesey
Douglas Keesey, Cayucos, California, USA has published books on Catherine Breillat, Don DeLillo, Clint Eastwood, Peter Greenaway, the Marx Brothers, Jack Nicholson, and Paul Verhoeven as well as erotic cinema and film noir. He teaches film at California Polytechnic State University.
Reviews for Brian De Palma´s Split-Screen: A Life in Film
By cunningly projecting De Palma's life side-by-side with his films, Douglas Keesey has brought to light the hidden, deep desires of a film director previously categorized as a purely genre filmmaker. Thanks to Keesey, I can now rewatch De Palma's films with new eyes. - Paul Duncan, film historian. Brian De Palma's Split-Screen ... Read more