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"The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors" encompasses the careers of over 500 directors working in the United States and Canada today. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers -- from established luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Quentin Tarantino, Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Spike Jonze, Lisa Krueger, Todd Solondz, Kimberly Peirce, and David O. Russell -- the evolving landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus. For each director, the volume provides brief biographical material, a complete filmography, and critical analysis of individual works.
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The entries are up-to-date, lively and informed; the "Critical Guide" promises to be an indispensable resource for all those who love American cinema.
"It is not too much to say that this volume reconfigures and transforms the landscape of contemporary film criticism." -- Film Quarterly
"Offers an extremely useful, incisive and lucid account of an extraordinary range of modern American filmmakers." -- Geoff Andrew, "Time Out"
"MUST BUY... the prose is clear and accessible... an invaluable reference tool and a thoroughly enjoyable read... threatens to become indispensable." -- "Empire"
"An excellent launch and a real bargain for the quality... judgments are informative, perceptive and on the mark... currency with freshman directors... Highly recommended for all film studies collections." -- "Library Journal"
"As an encyclopaedia of the individual works and backgrounds of the chosen directors, this is a very satisfying, informative reference book. The biographical notes are pertinent and illuminating especially for emerging directors trying to find their own vision." -- "6degrees.co.uk"
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"It is not too much to say that this volume reconfigures and transforms the landscape of contemporary film criticism." -- Film Quarterly
"Offers an extremely useful, incisive and lucid account of an extraordinary range of modern American filmmakers." -- Geoff Andrew, "Time Out"
"MUST BUY... the prose is clear and accessible... an invaluable reference tool and a thoroughly enjoyable read... threatens to become indispensable." -- "Empire"
"An excellent launch and a real bargain for the quality... judgments are informative, perceptive and on the mark... currency with freshman directors... Highly recommended for all film studies collections." -- "Library Journal"
"As an encyclopaedia of the individual works and backgrounds of the chosen directors, this is a very satisfying, informative reference book. The biographical notes are pertinent and illuminating especially for emerging directors trying to find their own vision." -- "6degrees.co.uk"
The first of three volumes, the others to look at British and European directors and at world cinema directors. Entries profile the lives and work of movie directors in (but not necessarily from) North America who have had feature films released for theatrical exhibition in the last decade or so. Some makers of animated or documentary films are als
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1903364108
- ISBN 13 9781903364109
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages560
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