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Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.
With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book's insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodóvar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von Trier's corpus is interpreted as driven by a motif that characterizes all of his films: the failed idealist. Michael Winterbottom's body of work presents a genre-diverse, post-MTV style concerned with outsiders and taboo, representation and truth, and human rights.
Global Auteurs' sophisticated approach to decoding film is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses on film, global mas

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      Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Published 1/13/2009 12:01:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781433101342
      978-1433101342
      ISBN-10 1433101343

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.
      With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book's insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodóvar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von Trier's corpus is interpreted as driven by a motif that characterizes all of his films: the failed idealist. Michael Winterbottom's body of work presents a genre-diverse, post-MTV style concerned with outsiders and taboo, representation and truth, and human rights.
      Global Auteurs' sophisticated approach to decoding film is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses on film, global mas

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