Blossoms and Blood Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

Name: Blossoms and Blood Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
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ISBN: 9781477302217

ISBN-10: 1477302212

ISBN-13: 9781477302217

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jason Sperb

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From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker’s evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson’s films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world. Blossoms and Blood explores Anderson’s films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America’s changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 12/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English