Brian de Palma's Split-Screen
A Life in Film
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Word Count
90,500 words, Guess
Page Count
362 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781628466973
- ISBN-101628466979
- Library of Congress Control Number2014045130
- Library of Congress Control Number2014047278
- OCLC Control Number893899235
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781628466973
- Open LibraryOL29257822M
Classifications
- LCCPN1998.3.D4K44 2015
- LCCPN1998.3.D4 K44 2015
- LCCPN1998.3.D4
Description
Over the last five decades, the film of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood history. De Palma helped launch the careers of such prominent actors as Robert De Niro, John Travolta, and Sissy Spacek (who was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in Carrie). Indeed Quentin Tarantino named Blow Out as one of his top three favorite films, praising De Palma as the best living American director. Picketed by feminists protesting its depictions of violence against women, Dressed to Kill helped to create the erotic thriller genre. Scarface, with its over-the-top performance by Al Pacino, remains a cult favorite. In the twenty-first century, De Palma has continued to experiment, incorporating elements from videogames (Femme Fatale), tabloid journalism (The Black Dahlia), YouTube, and Skype (Redacted and Passion) into his latest works. Douglas Keesey takes a biographical approach to De Palma's cinema, showing how De Palma reworks events from his own life into his films. Written in an accessible style and including a chapter on every one of his films to date, this book is for anyone who wants to know more about De Palma's controversial films or who wants to better understand the man who made them. -- from back cover.
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