Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Char
American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives ri
Takes us on a film-by-film tour of the works of Wes and P T Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Richard Linklater, Alexander Payne, and David O Russell. This book reveals
Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies i
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