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A groundbreaking study of how modern American filmmakers are using the "art film" model to explore the power of nature versus the power of art.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Tarkovsky's Solaris and the Cinematic Abyss
  • Chapter Two. Steven Soderbergh's Tinted World
  • Chapter Three. Aronofsky, Sundance, and the Return to Nature
  • Chapter Four. Mulholland Drive, Cahiers du cinéma, and the Horror of Cinephilia
  • Chapter Five. Spielberg's A.I.: Animation, Time, and Digital Culture
  • Chapter Six. Cinema against Art: Artists and Paintings in Contemporary American Film
  • Chapter Seven. A Plague of Frogs: Expressionism and Naturalism in 1990s American Film
  • Chapter Eight. Situating American Film in Godard, Jarmusch, and Scorsese
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

The Solaris Effect Art and Artifice in

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292713451, 978-0292713451
      ISBN10: 0292713452

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A groundbreaking study of how modern American filmmakers are using the "art film" model to explore the power of nature versus the power of art.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter One. Tarkovsky's Solaris and the Cinematic Abyss
      • Chapter Two. Steven Soderbergh's Tinted World
      • Chapter Three. Aronofsky, Sundance, and the Return to Nature
      • Chapter Four. Mulholland Drive, Cahiers du cinéma, and the Horror of Cinephilia
      • Chapter Five. Spielberg's A.I.: Animation, Time, and Digital Culture
      • Chapter Six. Cinema against Art: Artists and Paintings in Contemporary American Film
      • Chapter Seven. A Plague of Frogs: Expressionism and Naturalism in 1990s American Film
      • Chapter Eight. Situating American Film in Godard, Jarmusch, and Scorsese
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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