Vincent Lobrutto

Gus Van Sant (eBook, PDF)

His Own Private Cinema

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This incisive book provides an in-depth critical and biographical study of the artistic range of film director Gus Van Sant. Arranged chronologically, Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the life and art of this talented director, covering his mainstream, commercial, and avant-garde projects. More than a biography, the book examines Van Sant's incredibly diverse body of work, exploring the influence of his open homosexuality; of fine art, literature, and music; and of the range of cinema styles to which he has been exposed. Stressing Van Sant's wide-ranging content, genre, style, and cinematic presentation, author Vincent LoBrutto details the filmmaker's autobiographical tendencies and how he uses the film craft, literature, popular music, and fine arts to create his movies. The book dissects ways in which each of his films reflects Van Sant's sexual orientation, whether the individual film has a gay theme or not. Because of its importance to Van Sant's films, the book also offers a history of gay culture, past and present, covering its influence on art, music, theater, and dance, as well as community, activism, and prejudice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313357770
• Artikelnr.: 37828533

Autorenporträt

VINCENT LoBRUTTO is a faculty member for the Department of Film, Video and Animation at the School of Visual Arts. He has been a film production coordinator as well as a free-lance film editor. Among his publications are Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Praeger, 1990) and By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers (Praeger, 1992). LoBrutto is currently writing his fourth book for Praeger based on interviews with feature film cinematographers.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments 1. The Traveling Artist Parents Family and
Early Life of Gus Van Sant The Artist Emerges New York, New York College:
The Filmmaker Emerges Out in the Real World Hollywood Becoming Gus Van Sant
2. To Feature or Not to Feature: The Beat Gay Mentor and the Openly Gay
Opus Alice in Hollywood (1979) The Discipline of D.E. (1982) Mala Noche
(1985) 3. The Family Business Drugstore Cowboy (1989) My Own Private Idaho
(1991) 4. A Miss and Two Hits Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) To Die For
(1995) Good Will Hunting (1997) 5. Going Hollywood (Sort Of) Psycho (1998)
Finding Forrester (2000) 6. Antonioni Meets P. Adams Sitney vs. Kurt Cobain
in Disguise While Paranoia Strikes Deep Gerry (2002) Elephant (2003) Gus
Van Sant's Last Days (2005) Paranoid Park (2007) 7. The Mayor of Castro
Street Milk (2008) 8. Short Films, Work as a Producer, Music Videos,
Feature Film Segments, and Future Projects Conclusions Filmography Notes
Bibliography Index