| Description |
xxx, 307 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Filmmakers ; no. 55 |
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Filmmakers series ; no. 55
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| Contents |
1. Understanding Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone: An Interview with the Director / David Breskin -- 2. Seizure and The Hand. The Hysterical Imagination: The Horror Films of Oliver Stone / David Sanjek -- 3. Salvador. Manifestations of Foreign Culture through Paradox in Salvador / John F. Stone. Salvador: Oliver Stone and the Center of Indifference / Richard Keenan -- 4. Platoon. The Colonialist Subtext in Platoon / Clyde Taylor. Oliver Stone's Journey to Myth-Country: Platoon and the Cultural History of Adventure / Donald Whaley -- 5. Wall Street. Wall Street: The Commodification of Perception / Jack Boozer, Jr. -- 6. Talk Radio. Oliver Stone's Talk Radio / Don Kunz -- 7. Born on the Fourth of July. Oliver Stone's Film Adaptation of Born on the Fourth of July: Redefining Masculine Heroism / Don Kunz -- 8. The Doors. "Enough to Base a Movie On?" / Suzanne E. O'Hop -- 9. JFK. JFK: Historical Fact/Historical Film / Robert A. Rosenstone |
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The Rhetorical Structure of Oliver Stone's JFK / Martin J. Medhurst. JFK: The Lesson and Legacy of Vietnam / Jim Welsh -- 10. Heaven and Earth. When Man and Woman Changed Places.... / Bryan Marinelli -- 11. Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers and American Decline / Daniel Green -- 12. Nixon. "Citizen Nixon" - Oliver Stone's Wellesian View of a Failed Public Figure / Frank E. Beaver |
| Summary |
The Films of Oliver Stone is a collection of essays on the work of one of Hollywood's most successful and controversial contemporary filmmakers. Stone's work has played a major role in the debate over whether Hollywood has promoted the decline of American culture during the last decade or merely reflected it. The Films of Oliver Stone provides a more sophisticated, detailed, and probing analysis of Stone's career as a filmmaker than that available in the thousands of film reviews, personality profiles, and news items concerning Stone. The volume includes an interview with the filmmaker followed by fifteen essays by professors in departments of American studies, communication studies, English and American literature, and film and video studies |
| Notes |
"Directorʼs filmography":p. 285-289 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Stone, Oliver -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Kunz, Don, 1941-
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| LC no. |
97001643 |
| ISBN |
0810832976 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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