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Film Mavericks in Action

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Film Mavericks in Action

By Alan Taylor

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About the book

The book's ambition is to uniquely yoke familiar histories of New Hollywood with aspects of critical theory that, since the 1950s, have embraced advances in the New Rhetoric as pioneered by literary theorist, philosopher, social analyst and educator Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). The study tracks the career arcs of Hollywood film directors Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola whose productions are regarded as Burkean perspectives by incongruity. This analysis i...Show more

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ISBN

9783631635636

Publisher

Peter Lang AG

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Film Mavericks in Action

Format

Hardcover

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