{"product_id":"brian-de-palmas-splitscreen-a-life-in-film-9781496809728","title":"Brian De Palmas SplitScreen  A Life in Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes Brian De Palma such a maverick even when he is making Hollywood genre films? Why do his movies often feature megalomaniacs and failed heroes? Is he merely a misogynist and an imitator of Alfred Hitchcock? To answer these questions, Douglas Keesey takes a biographical approach to De Palma's cinema, showing how De Palma reworks events from his own life into his films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy cunningly projecting De Palma's life side-by-side with his films, Douglas Keesey has brought to light the hidden, deep desires of a film director previously categorized as a purely genre filmmaker. Thanks to Keesey, I can now rewatch De Palma's films with new eyes.\"\" - Paul Duncan, film historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003cem\u003eBrian De Palma's Split-Screen\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful and highly scholarly book. It is the best book so far on the life and works of De Palma. It is a very well researched book and provides deep analysis of De Palma's works. It should be on the university curriculum for film studies. It is a must-read for everyone interested in the life and works of Brian De Palma and cinema in general.\"\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578104516951,"sku":"9781496809728","price":26.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496809728.jpg?v=1746097934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brian-de-palmas-splitscreen-a-life-in-film-9781496809728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}