Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema - Hardcover

Andrew, Geoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853752746 ISBN 13: 9781853752742

Publisher: Prion Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

This is a study of the outsider directors who have come to dominate America's and Hollywood's creative output in the last two decades: the Coen Brothers; Hal Hartley; Todd Haynes; Jim Jarmusch; Spike Lee; Richard Linklater; David Lynch; John Sayles; Steven Soderbergh; Quentin Tarantino; and Wayne Wang. The book places these directors within the story of the growth of American independent film-making, and draws connections to their forerunners from the late-1960s and 1970s, influences such as Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Roger Corman, and Martin Scorcese. As well as a chapter on each of the above 11 directors, the book provides a general assessment of the explosion of independent cinema in the States: mainstream mavericks (Tim Burton, John Dahl); new queer cinema (Rose Troche, Tom Kalin); black film-makers (Charles Burnett, John Singleton); women directors (Alison Anders, Maggie Greenwald); experimentors, imitators, cult figures, and a peripheral cast of hundreds from Steve Buscemi to Gus Van Sant.

About this title

Product Description:

Stranger Than Paradise A study of the outsider directors who have come to dominate America's and Hollywood's creative output. This book places these directors within the story of the growth of American independent film-making, and draws connections to their forerunners from the late 1960s and 1970s.

About the Author:

Geoff Andrew is the Film Editor of London's Time Out.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1853752746
• ISBN 13: 9781853752742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320