Widely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape (1989) launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose debut film was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh breaks new ground by investigating salient philosophical themes through the unique story lines and innovative approaches to filmmaking that distinguish this celebrated artist. Editors R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders have brought together leading scholars in philosophy and film studies for the first systematic analysis of Soderbergh’s entire body of work, offering the first in-depth exploration of the philosophical ideas that form the basis of the work of one of the most commercially successful and consistently inventive filmmakers of our time.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
Knowledge, Truth, and Thought Experiments in Schizopolis, and sex, lies, and videotape
Love, Truth, and the Medium in sex, lies, and videotape
Amplified Discourse and Desire in sex, lies, and videotape
Alain Resnais Meets Film Noir in The Underneath and The Limey
Doing Time: Consciousness, Temporality, and the Crime-Revenge Genre in The Limey
The Blend of History: Intertextuality, Broken Mirrors, and The Good German
Remade by Steven Soderbergh
Philosophical Reflections on Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka
All About Erin: Responsibility and Self-Centered Narration in Erin Brockovich
Portrait of the Artist as a Struggling Filmmaker: Reading Schizopolis as a Form of Philosophical Autobiography
Mr. Soderbergh Goes to Washington
You Shook Sinatra’s Hand, You Should Know Better: Competing Modes of Capital in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven
Stuck in Traffic: An Ethical Analysis
The Philosophy of Space and Memory in Solaris
The Dream Factory: Solaris, Cinema, and Simulacra
Circa l’autore
Steven M. Sanders, emeritus professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, is coeditor of The Philosophy of TV Noir. He lives in Franklin, Massachusetts.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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