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The American film directors featured here have created significant bodies of work. Notes Kolker (film studies, Univ. of Maryland), for all the challenge and adventure, their films speak to a continual impotence in the world, an inability to change and to create change. A fount of cinematic knowledge, the author provides the context for his subjects, persuasively arguing that Citizen Kane and Psycho hold pride of place as influences. He draws parallels between Leni Riefenstahl!s Triumph of the Will (1935) and Steven Spielberg!s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978), Alfred Hitchcock!s Marnie (1964) and Stanley Kubrick!s Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and John Wayne!s Ethan Edwards in John Ford!s The Searchers (1956) and Robert DeNiro!s Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese!s Taxi Driver (1976). Evidently, the cinema of loneliness is not entirely new. Since the first and second editions, Francis Ford Coppola has been excised and Oliver Stone added. Essential for scholars and well-informed fans, the book is recommended for film and performing arts collections as well as for larger public libraries"Kim Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, PA
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"An excellent work of film criticism, and as such, demands response and debate....Kolker's analyses of each director's work...are stimulating, provocative, insightful and passionate, models of film analysis."--San Francisco Review of Books

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Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (July 27, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195123506
ISBN-13: 978-0195123500
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
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avenger films, nineties films, films that follow, noir world, seventies films, cinematic space, production design, camera booms, gangster genre

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Mean Streets, New York, Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Close Encounters, Mickey One, The Long Goodbye, Eyes Wide Shut, Johnny Boy, Natural Born Killers, Raging Bull, Buffalo Bill, Oliver Stone, Travis Bickle, Cape Fear, Short Cuts, Night Moves, The Shining, Saving Private Ryan, John Wayne, The Player, Kansas City, Citizen Kane, Schindler's List

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Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick on 4 pages
Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn on 4 pages
The Age of Innocence: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script Series) by Martin Scorsese on page 178, page 210, and Index
Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg in Front Matter, and Index
Transcendental Style In Film (Da Capo Paperback) by Paul Schrader on page 218, and Back Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books about post-studio system U.S. cinema, July 17, 2000

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Although I missed the very first edition of this book in 1980, its second edition has been among my favorite film books for a decade. This is despite the fact that most of the film-makers discussed within (especially Scorsese & Altman) had made numerous films since the last ones featured in that edition. Now I have the joyful experience of catching up on their films with one of the finest writers on the topic of American film ever and his third edition of one of the finest books on American film ever published.

Kolker has gone back to his earlier editions and used the newer films to both confirm and refute his earlier evaluations. Many fans of film in general (and some of these directors, in particular) will not agree with many of Kolker's points. What makes this book so wonderful, though, is that you don't have to agree to enjoy it. Kolker understands that film criticism is meant to be a lively art, rather than a process of emalming great works of art. I may not agree with his assessment of each Scorsese picture but his analysis of Scorsese's significance is right on the money. At the same time, his newly added discussion of Oliver Stone is the first writing about the controversial director that gave a fair picture of his artistic strengths (there are many) and weaknesses (fewer but still significant).

Deserving of special note is the book's section on the late Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's passing makes him the only film-maker in the book whose body of work is completely finished, a matter which Kolkee addresses in a special epitaph. It is indicative of both the quality and bold approach of the book that the author uses Kubrick's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" as a springboard to ponder how Kubrick's work will fit into the history of cinema in the years to come. He does not make pat, easy judgements but rather admits that the still vital medium is ever shifting and even old works can take on new meanings in hindsight. It's almost enough to make me eager for the fourth edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Smart, exhaustive, pretentious, engaging, January 3, 2001

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Kolker's lengthy opinions sometimes suffer from tunnel-vision -- ideas that support his over-arching theories are stressed while other influnces on/aspects of the films are ignored. But his over-arching theories are penetrating nevertheless, and a lot of light is shed on the filmmakers he discusses. His treatment of Kubrick, whose work lends itself so well to intelluctual deconstruction, is especially good. The discussion of Spielberg is interesting but a little too high-minded for the relatively simple pleasures of Spielberg's movies. Most interesting of all are the author's comparisons of the filmmakers with each other, the culture of their times, and various narrative forms and goals. (Kubrick fans should also check out Michael Herr's "Kubrick", which reveals a human side to the legendarily chilly and cerebral director).

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