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Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers - An Excursion Into the American New Wave (Paperback)
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Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers - An Excursion Into the American New Wave (Paperback)
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Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work
within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young
filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O.
Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the
coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the
early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against
imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic
forebears - the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma,
Altman, and Ashby among others - did in the 1970s. But their true
pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the
Nouvelle Vague (Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, et
al), who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated
screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our
assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be
told - all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on
ideas. Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realised, accessible
yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling,
surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new breed of
American film captures the angst of its characters and the times in
which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony
and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a
little more amusing than it should be. This book analyzes and
traces the origins of the pivotal films and directors in this
undeclared war on the mundane.
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