{"product_id":"blossoms-and-blood-jason-sperb-9781477302217","title":"Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom his film festival debut \u003ci\u003eHard Eight\u003c\/i\u003e to ambitious studio epics \u003ci\u003eBoogie Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson's films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e explores Anderson's films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America's changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson's work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson's work, \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Sperb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477302212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477302217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Jason Sperb","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994233176319,"sku":"9781477302217","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eee2ba38-00b3-404b-a24e-32b0881048a8.jpg?v=1683328919","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blossoms-and-blood-jason-sperb-9781477302217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}