The Cinema Of Paolo Sorrentino 8211
Commitment To Style
- Editore:
Columbia University Press
- Collana:
- Directors' Cuts
- EAN:
9780231189934
- ISBN:
0231189931
- Pagine:
- 272
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Cinema Of Paolo Sorrentino 8211
This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino's work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur. Russell J. A. Kilbourn offers close readings of Sorrentino's feature films and television output from One Man Up (2001) to The Young Pope (2016) and Loro (2018), featuring in-depth analyses of the director's exuberant and intensified film style. Addressing the crucial themes of Sorrentino's output--including a masculine subject defined by a melancholic awareness of its own imminent demise, and a critique of the conventional cinematic representation of women--Kilbourn illuminates Sorrentino's ability to suffuse postmodern elegies for the humanist worldview with a sense of social awareness and responsibility. Kilbourn also foregrounds Sorrentino's contributions to the ongoing transformations of cinematic realism and the Italian and European art cinema traditions more broadly. The first English-language study of the acclaimed director's oeuvre, The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino demonstrates why he is considered one of the most dynamic figures making films today.
