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Steven Soderbergh: (Contemporary Film Directors)

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A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Using a combination of realism and expressive stylization of character subjectivity, Soderbergh's films diverge from the contemporary Hollywood mainstream through the statements they offer on issues including political repression, illegal drugs, violence, environmental degradation, the empowering and controlling potential of digital technology, and economic inequality. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and Soderbergh has repeatedly emphasized place as a major factor in his narratives. Formally, he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments    ix THE FILMS OF STEVEN SODERBERGH    1 Relational Independence    1 Remade by Steven Soderbergh: The Underneath, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Solaris    16 Star Actors: Julia Roberts, Michael Douglas, George Clooney    28 Cinema of Outsiders: Alienation and Crime    39 Critical Violence and Out of Sight    42 Words as Weapons: The Limey and Ocean's Eleven    53 Independent Form    60 Experiments in Digital Video: Full Frontal, K Street, Bubble    75 Class Conflict in High Definition: Che and The Girlfriend Experience    86 Music and Authorship in Ocean's Eleven and The Limey    90 INTERVIEWS WITH STEVEN SODERBERGH    97 Filmography    115 Bibliography    123 Index    129

About the Author :
Aaron Baker is an associate professor of film and media studies at Arizona State University and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film.

Review :
"A smart, enthusiastic analysis of an artist and his considerable oeuvre. Baker's textual analysis of Soderbergh's films is spot on."--Jon Lewis, author of American Film: A History "By having a foot in both worlds, Soderbergh has produced a number of films that follow classical Hollywood narratives, yet often carry non-traditional visual cues and meta-commentaries. Baker creates an accessible work for those who often dismiss half of his work, whichever side that may be."--Film Matters


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  • ISBN-13: 9780252077968
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0252077962
  • Publisher Date: 31 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Contemporary Film Directors
  • Weight: 200 gr


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