{"product_id":"brian-de-palma-interviews-9781578065165","title":"Brian De Palma: Interviews","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years he reigned as the \"\"master of the macabre,\"\" the man who massacred the class of '76 in \u003cem\u003eCarrie\u003c\/em\u003e and stalked Angie Dickinson in \u003cem\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/em\u003e. By the mid-1980s De Palma found himself assaulting his audience and critics, daring them to watch a chainsaw enter a man's skull in \u003cem\u003eScarface\u003c\/em\u003e and a power drill disembowel a defenseless woman in \u003cem\u003eBody Double\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What drove De Palma to such extremes? In the late 1960s, he wanted to be the next Jean-Luc Godard and revolutionize American cinema. Instead, he found himself ostracized when Warner Bros. removed him from \u003cem\u003eGet to Know Your Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, his first Hollywood feature. De Palma sought the refuge of Alfred Hitchcock until the late 1970s (\u003cem\u003eSisters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eObsession\u003c\/em\u003e), when his surreal approach to horror became a genre unto itself (\u003cem\u003eCarrie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/em\u003e). Ironically, just as De Palma achieved the success that his fellow Movie Brats George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg had enjoyed since the mid-1970s, he could not hide his resentment toward Hollywood. After battling with the MPAA in the 1980s, he gradually became part of the mainstream with the success of \u003cem\u003eThe Untouchables\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMission: Impossible\u003c\/em\u003e, although he never suppressed his desire to make audiences aware of his camera-eye and his dark, penetrating worldview.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBrian De Palma: Interviews\u003c\/em\u003e follows De Palma's fortunes as he makes the difficult transition from underground filmmaker to celebrity auteur. In profiles and q\u0026amp;a interviews, he emerges as a fascinating figure of excess and ambivalence. De Palma is not afraid to share his opinions about censorship, violence, feminism, American culture, and the fate of cinema in the twenty-first century.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041472872791,"sku":"9781578065165","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781578065165.jpg?v=1750950413","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brian-de-palma-interviews-9781578065165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}