Jim Jarmusch

Name: Jim Jarmusch
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ISBN: 9780252074431

ISBN-10: 0252074432

ISBN-13: 9780252074431

Edition: 2006

Authors: Juan A. Suï¿½rez

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The first major English-language study of JarmuschAt a time when gimmicky, action-driven blockbusters ruled Hollywood, Jim Jarmusch spearheaded a boom in independent cinema by making low-budget films focused on intimacy, character, and new takes on classical narratives. His minimal form, peculiar pacing, wry humor, and blank affect have since been adopted by directors including Sophia Coppola, Hal Harley, Richard Linklater, and Wong Kar-Wai. Juan A. Suaacute;rez'sJim Jarmuschanalyzes the director's work from three mutually implicated perspectives: in relation to independent filmmaking from the 1980s to the present; as a form of cultural production that appropriates existing icons, genres,…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



A stranger here myself


Akron/The cinematheque/Lightning over water


Downtown post-pop


Punk


Pretty vacant


Stranger than paradise


Independent cinema - the 1980s


Oblique lines and languor : Down by law


Phantom Memphis


Transient intimacies : Night on earth


Are you trying to tell me the drumming in my records sucks? : Coffee and cigarettes


Tracking and literature : the 1990s


Dead man


Rock sublime : Year of the horse


Citing, touching, dwelling : Ghost dog


"Strange how people's lives change": Broken flowers


Interview with Jim Jarmusch