Cinema of Steven Soderbergh - Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Dewaard, Andrew Tait Dewaard, deWaard Andrew, R. Colin Tait, Tait R. Colin
• Assisted by: Thomas Schatz (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9780231165518
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16551-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Directors' Cuts; Directors' Cuts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Film, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director