Todd Solondz - Contemporary Film Directors - Julian Murphet - Books - University of Illinois Press - 9780252042768 - August 16, 2019
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Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz repeatedly takes moviegoers into a bland suburban junk space peopled by the damaged, the neglected, and the depraved. Julian Murphet appraises the career of the controversial, if increasingly ignored, indie film auteur. Through close readings and a discussion with the director, Murphet dissects how Solondz's themes and techniques serve stories laden with hot-button topics like pedophilia, rape, and family and systemic cruelty. Solondz's uncompromising return to the same motifs, stylistic choices, and characters reject any idea of aesthetic progression. Instead, he embraces an art of diminishing returns that satirizes the laws of valuation sustaining what we call cinema. It also reflects both Solondz's declining box office fortunes and the changing economics of independent film in an era of financial contraction.

200 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 16, 2019
ISBN13 9780252042768
Publishers University of Illinois Press
Pages 200
Dimensions 140 × 210 × 18 mm   ·   385 g
Language English  

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