{"product_id":"brian-de-palma-brian-de-palma-9781578065165","title":"Brian de Palma: Interviews","description":"Brian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years he reigned as the \"master of the macabre,\" the man who massacred the class of '76 in \u003ci\u003eCarrie\u003c\/i\u003e and stalked Angie Dickinson in \u003ci\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e. By the mid-1980s De Palma found himself assaulting his audience and critics, daring them to watch a chainsaw enter a man's skull in \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e and a power drill disembowel a defenseless woman in \u003ci\u003eBody Double\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What drove De Palma to such extremes? In the late 1960s, he wanted to be the next Jean-Luc Godard and revolutionize American cinema. Instead, he found himself ostracized when Warner Bros. removed him from \u003ci\u003eGet to Know Your Rabbit\u003c\/i\u003e, his first Hollywood feature. De Palma sought the refuge of Alfred Hitchcock until the late 1970s (\u003ci\u003eSisters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObsession\u003c\/i\u003e), when his surreal approach to horror became a genre unto itself (\u003ci\u003eCarrie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e). Ironically, just as De Palma achieved the success that his fellow Movie Brats George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg had enjoyed since the mid-1970s, he could not hide his resentment toward Hollywood. After battling with the MPAA in the 1980s, he gradually became part of the mainstream with the success of \u003ci\u003eThe Untouchables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMission: Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e, although he never suppressed his desire to make audiences aware of his camera-eye and his dark, penetrating worldview. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian De Palma: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e follows De Palma's fortunes as he makes the difficult transition from underground filmmaker to celebrity auteur. In profiles and q \u0026amp; a interviews, he emerges as a fascinating figure of excess and ambivalence. De Palma is not afraid to share his opinions about censorship, violence, feminism, American culture, and the fate of cinema in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence F. Knapp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 157806516X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578065165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.50w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2002 pg. 717","brand":"Laurence F. Knapp","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986970083583,"sku":"9781578065165","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51f37304-31aa-4303-9140-5f1bd9db3df5.jpg?v=1683286236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brian-de-palma-brian-de-palma-9781578065165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}