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A cinema of loneliness
Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman
By Kolker, Robert Phillip
- ISBN
- 978-0-19512-350-0
- Publisher
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2000
The American film directors featured here have created significant bodies of work. Notes Kolker (film studies, Univ. of Maryland), for all the challenge and adventure, their films speak to a continual impotence in the world, an inability to change and to create change. A fount of cinematic knowledge, the author provides the context for his subjects, persuasively arguing that Citizen Kane and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
