Steven Soderbergh - Interviews - Conversations with Filmmakers

Kaufman, Anthony (edited by)

ISBN 10: 1578064295 / ISBN 13: 9781578064298

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 2001

Beschreibung

A Fine unmarked copy. xxix + 171 pages. Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star blazed with Sex, Lies and Videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Charting this writer-director-producer's surprising career, these conversations with Soderbergh reveal him to be as self-effacing and light-hearted in his later, more established years as he was when he was starting out. Unfazed by the glitz and power of Hollywood and unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself, he remains at heart a truly independent filmmaker. 50 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009421

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Steven Soderbergh - Interviews - Conversations with Filmmakers
• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1578064295
• ISBN-13: 9781578064298
• Einband: Soft Cover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Theatre / Acting / Cinema / Plays

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Inhaltsangabe

Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic. Steven Soderbergh: Interviews charts the rise and fall and rise of the writer-director-producer's surprising career from 1989 to 2001. From his ""flavor of the month"" status with his debut film sex, lies, and videotape to his Academy Award-winning feature Traffic, Soderbergh's road to success is fraught with ups and downs. On each and every film, the book details such experiences as his creative crisis surrounding his fourth film, The Underneath, and his rejuvenation with the ultra-low budget free-style Schizopolis, and the mainstream achievements that followed with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Spanning twelve years, these conversations reveal Soderbergh (b. 1963) to be as self-effacing and lighthearted in his later more established years as he was when just starting out. He comes across as a man undaunted by the glitz and power of Hollywood, remaining, above all, a truly independent filmmaker unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself. Not only do the interviews provide a glimpse into the filmmaker's aesthetics, but they also offer a history of the U.S. independent film movement in the late 1980s and 1990s--the explosion of ""independent films,"" studios and film festivals, and the Hollywood co-optation of such talents, Soderbergh included. The collection also reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between independent and mainstream and Soderbergh's commitment to revitalizing cinema from inside the system.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony Kaufman is the former senior editor of indieWIRE.com and is currently a Contributing Writer to indieWIRE.com, and is an instructor of film and media journalism at New York University. He has been published in numerous periodicals such as the Village Voice, Cineaste, Time Out New York, and the Independent Film & Video Monthly.