The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh
Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2015
256 pages
978-0-231-85039-1 (ISBN)
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The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
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Contributor: Thomas Schatz Tom Schatz is a Professor and Chair of the department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. His books include Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System (McGraw Hill, 1981) and The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (Minnesota 2010).
Content
Acknowledgements
Preface by Thomas Schatz
Introduction
Part One: Author, Brand, Guerrilla
1. The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur
2. Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur
3. Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerrilla Auteur
Part Two: History, Memory, Text
4. Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective
5. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective
6. The (Bl)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual Detective
Part Three: Crime, Capital, Globalisation
7. Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s
8. The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy
9. Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000s
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Preface by Thomas Schatz
Introduction
Part One: Author, Brand, Guerrilla
1. The Dialectical Signature: Soderbergh as Classical Auteur
2. Impresario of Indiewood: Soderbergh as Sellebrity Auteur
3. Corporate Revolutionary: Soderbergh as Guerrilla Auteur
Part Two: History, Memory, Text
4. Searching Low and High: The Limey and the Schizophrenic Detective
5. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Solaris and the Psychoanalytic Detective
6. The (Bl)end of History: The Good German and the Intertextual Detective
Part Three: Crime, Capital, Globalisation
7. Genre and Capital: New Crime Wave in the 1990s
8. The Ethical Heist: Competing Modes of Capital in the Ocean's Trilogy
9. Trafficking Social Change: The Global Social Problem Film in the 2000s
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
