Praeger, Date: 2007. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2007. Praeger ISBN 027599080X 9780275990800 [US]

Praeger, Date: 2007-05-30. Hardcover. Good. 2007. Praeger ISBN 027599080X 9780275990800 [US]

ISBN10: 027599080X, ISBN13: 9780275990800, [publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated] Hardcover pp. 208
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 027599080X, ISBN13: 9780275990800, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film, literature, and fashion. In cinema in particular, some of the arts most fundamental aspectsstories, characters, and genres, for instanceassumed such a trite and trivialized appearance that only rarely could they take their places on the screen without provoking an inward smirk or a wink from the audience. Out of this highly self-conscious and world-weary environment, however, a new group of filmmakers began to develop as the decade wore on, with a new set of styles and sensibilities to match. In Post-Pop Cinema author Jesse Fox Mayshark takes us on a film-by-film tour of the works of these filmmakers-including Wes and P. T. Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Richard Linklater, Alexander Payne, and David O. Russell-and seeks to reveal how a common pool of styles, collaborators, and personal connections helps them to confront the unifying problem of meaning in American film.Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) were ultimately about their characters' lives-even though their characters often dealt with highly contrived environments and situations. And soon after Wes Anderson scored his first success, others like ...