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Always Crashing in the Same Car - On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California (Paperback): Matthew Specktor Always Crashing in the Same Car - On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California (Paperback)
Matthew Specktor
R514 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stephen Hilger: In the Alley (Hardcover): Stephen Hilger Stephen Hilger: In the Alley (Hardcover)
Stephen Hilger; Edited by Peter Kayafas; Text written by Matthew Specktor; Interview of James Welling
R1,340 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R303 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Dream Machine (Paperback): Matthew Specktor American Dream Machine (Paperback)
Matthew Specktor
R293 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Beau Rosenwald - overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic - arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most successful agency in Hollywood. Through the eyes of his son, we watch Beau and his partner go to war, waging a seismic battle that redraws the lines of an entire industry. We watch Beau rise and fall and rise again, in accordance with the cultural transformations that dictate the fickle world of movies. We watch Beau's partner, the enigmatic and cerebral Williams Farquarsen, struggle to contain himself, to control his impulses and consolidate his power. And we watch two generations of men fumble and thrive across the LA landscape, learning for themselves the shadows and costs exacted by success and failure.

The Sting - A Novel Approach to Cinema (Paperback): Matthew Specktor, Sean Howe The Sting - A Novel Approach to Cinema (Paperback)
Matthew Specktor, Sean Howe
R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Melville to Madoff, the Confidence Man is an essential American archetype. George Roy Hill's 1973 film The Sting treats this theme with a characteristic dexterity. The movie was warmly received in its time, winning seven Academy Awards, but there were some who thought the movie was nothing more than a slight throwback. Pauline Kael, among others, felt Hill's film was mechanical and contrived: a callow and manipulative attempt to recapture the box-office success of Robert Redford and Paul Newman's prior pairing, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Matthew Specktor's passionate, lyric meditation turns The Sting on its head, on its side, and right-side-up in an effort to unpack the film's giddy complexity and secret, melancholic heart. Working off interviews with screenwriter David S. Ward and producer Tony Bill, and tacking from nuanced interpretation of its arching moods and themes to gimlet-eyed observation of its dizzying sleights-of-hand, Specktor opens The Sting up to disclose the subtle and stunning dimensions--sexual, political, and aesthetic--of Hill's best film. Through Specktor's lens, The Sting reveals itself as both an enduring human drama and a meditation on art-making itself, an ode to the necessary pleasure of being fooled at the movies.

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