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Todd Solondz (Hardcover)
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Todd Solondz (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
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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.
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