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Author Ness, Richard.

Title Alan Rudolph : romance and a crazed world / Richard Ness
Published New York : Twayne, 1996
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Twayne's filmmakers series
Twayne's filmmakers series.
Contents Introduction: Defining the Rudolph Universe -- 1. Early Years: The Altman Connection -- 2. Welcome to L.A.: Daydreams in Traffic -- 3. Remember My Name: There Is Buddha and There Is Pest -- 4. Choose Me: Trying to Get Back the Blood -- 5. Trouble in Mind: Somewhere between Bogie and Bowie -- 6. The Moderns: Art Is Only an Infection; Some People Get It and Some People Don't -- 7. Love at Large: Searching for a Heart -- 8. Equinox: "I Have No Defense Skills!" -- 9. Director for Hire: The Relationship between Styrofoam and the Planet Jupiter -- 10. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Into Love and Out Again
Summary Ness closely examines how Rudolph has adapted a number of genres to his thematic interests, so that even films in familiar generic territory tend to veer into an environment unique to the director. He argues that whether drawing on conventions of women's melodramas (Remember My Name [1978]), film noir (Trouble in Mind), westerns (Songwriter [1985]), political thrillers (Endangered Species [1982]), detective films (Love at Large [1989]), suspense dramas (Mortal Thoughts), or comedies - both romantic (Choose Me) and slapstick (Roadie [1980]) - Rudolph is concerned as much with the interactions of the people in these formulaic situations as with the situations themselves
In this first comprehensive, book-length study of the 16 films Rudolph has made to date, Richard Ness analyzes the unique visual and aural characteristics of what he calls "the Rudolph universe." Ness separates his discussion of Rudolph's work according to his more personal films - including Welcome to L.A. (1977), Choose Me, Trouble in Mind (1986), The Moderns, and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - and what Rudolph has referred to as his "director-for-hire" studio projects, the most successful of which has been Mortal Thoughts. Beginning with Rudolph's early directorial work - and including his collaborations with his mentor, Robert Altman - Ness focuses on the recurring themes of the search for identity and romantic fulfillment, paying particular attention to Rudolph's complex approach to visual composition and mise-en-scene
Bibliography Filmography: pages 152-163
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rudolph, Alan, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Rudolph, Alan. swd
Subject Film.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96027579
ISBN 0805717323
9780805717327