How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we
look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather
than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur
theory? Mark Gallagher uses Steven Soderbergh's career as a lens
through which to re-view screen authorship and offer a new model
that acknowledges the fundamentally collaborative nature of
authorial work and its circulation. Working in film, television,
and digital video, Soderbergh is the most prolific and protean
filmmaker in contemporary American cinema. At the same time, his
activity typifies contemporary screen industry practice, in which
production entities, distribution platforms, and creative labor
increasingly cross-pollinate. Gallagher investigates Soderbergh's
work on such films as The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven
and its sequels, Solaris, The Good German, Che, and The Informant ,
as well as on the K Street television series. Dispensing with
classical auteurist models, he positions Soderbergh and authorship
in terms of collaborative production, location filming activity,
dealmaking and distribution, textual representation, genre and
adaptation work, critical reception, and other industrial and
cultural phenomena. Gallagher also addresses Soderbergh's role as
standard-bearer for U.S. independent cinema following 1989's sex,
lies and videotape, as well as his cinephilic dialogues with
different forms of U.S. and international cinema from the 1920s
through the 1970s. Including an extensive new interview with the
filmmaker, Another Steven Soderbergh Experience demonstrates how
industries and institutions cultivate, recognize, and challenge
creative screen artists.
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