Cinema of Robert Rodriguez

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Luis Aldama was born in Mexico City to a Guatemalan- and Irish-American mother from LA and a Mexican father from Mexico City. When he was a child, his mother moved the family to California. Today he is known as Professor Latinx and is an award-winning author and editor of over 50 books, including recently the comic book Pyroclast, the graphic fictions Through Fences and Labyrinths Borne, and children's books The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie and Con Papá / With Papá. He is a National Cartoonists Society, Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University's ODI Hall of Fame inductee. He is founder and director of the UT Austin's Latinx Pop Lab where he holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. Klappentext Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has scripted, directed, shot, edited, and scored nearly all his films since his first breakout success, El Mariachi, in 1992. With new films constantly coming out and the launch of his El Rey Network television channel, he receives unceasing coverage in the entertainment media, but systematic scholarly study of Rodriguez's films is only just beginning.The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez offers the first extended investigation of this important filmmaker's art. Accessibly written for fans as well as scholars, it addresses all of Rodriguez's feature films through Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, and his filmmaking process from initial inspiration, to script, to film (with its myriad visual and auditory elements and choices), to final product, to (usually) critical and commercial success. In addition to his close analysis of Rodriguez's work, Frederick Luis Aldama presents an original interview with the filmmaker, in which they discuss his career and his relationship to the film industry. This entertaining and much-needed scholarly overview of Rodriguez's work shines new light on several key topics, including the filmmaker's creative, low-cost, efficient approach to filmmaking; the acceptance of Latino films and filmmakers in mainstream cinema; and the consumption and reception of film in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung With insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: A Teaser before the Show by Charles RamÍrez BergAcknowledgmentsArt and Industry: The Films of Robert RodriguezGood, Bad, Ugly . . . and Beautiful El Mariachi (1992)Desperado (1995)Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)Regenerative Aesthetics of Degenerate Genres From Dusk till Dawn (1996)The Faculty (1998)Familia Redefined, Chocolate Rivers, Rainbow Rocks, Dreamscapes, and S'mores Spy Kids 1 (2001)Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011)The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)Shorts (2009)Tour de Noir Comic-Book Film Sin City (2005)Otherworldly Mutants, Bandidas, Borderland Vigilantes . . . Fight Back Planet Terror (2007)Machete (2010)Machete Kills (2013)It's a WrapInterview with Robert RodriguezFilmographyReferencesIndex...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frederick Luis Aldama, Frederick Luis/ Berg Aldama, rez (FR
• Verlag: University Of Texas Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.10.2014
• EAN: 9780292761247
• ISBN: 978-0-292-76124-7
• Seiten: 187
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett