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Title Sayles talk : new perspectives on independent filmmaker John Sayles / edited by Diane Carson and Heidi Kenaga
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 285 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Sayles between the Systems: Bucking “Industry Policy� and Indie Apolitical Chic -- 2 Breakups and Reunions: Late Realism in Early Sayles
3 The False Salvation of the Here and Now: Aliens, Images, and the Commodification of Desire in The Brother from Another Planet 4 The Theo-Political Landscape of Matewan -- 5 Passersby and Politics: City of Hope and the Multiple Protagonist Film
6 Of Spectral Mothers and Lost Children: War, Folklore, and Psychoanalysis in The Secret of Roan Inish 7 Oedipus Edits (Lone Star) -- 8 Men in Context: Gender in Matewan and Men With Guns -- 9 Tourism and Territory: Constructing the Nation in Men With Guns (Hombres Armados)
10 Psychic Borders and Legacies Left Hanging in Lone Star and Men With Guns 11 The Space of Ambiguity: Representations of Nature in Limbo -- Annotated Resources -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back_Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sayles, John, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Sayles, John, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation
Sayles, John, 1950- fast
Subject Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures.
Films.
Form Electronic book
Author Carson, Diane.
Kenaga, Heidi, 1960-
LC no. 2005014983
ISBN 9780814340073
0814340075