The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

  • Autor: deWaard, Andrew; Tait, R. Colin; Schatz, Thomas
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • Col·lecció: Directors' Cuts
  • ISBN: 9780231165501
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231850391
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2013
  • Mes: Maig
  • Idioma: Anglés
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface by Thomas Schatz
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: AUTHOR, BRAND, GUERILLA
  • 1. The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur
  • 2. Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur
  • 3. Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerilla Auteur
  • PART TWO: HISTORY, MEMORY, TEXT
  • 4. Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective
  • 5. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective
  • 6. The (Bl)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual Detective
  • PART THREE: CRIME, CAPITAL, GLOBALISATION
  • 7. Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s
  • 8. The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy
  • 9. Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000s
  • Conclusion
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index