{"product_id":"peter-greenaway-vernon-gras-9781578062553","title":"Peter Greenaway: Interviews","description":"In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably against the main current of present cinematic practice, from the short film \u003ci\u003eWindows\u003c\/i\u003e in the mid-seventies, to his more popular but nonetheless challenging films such as \u003ci\u003eA Zed and Two Noughts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Book\u003c\/i\u003e in the nineties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this collection the ever-controversial Greenaway discusses his philosophies of film, art, aesthetics, literature, and reality, criticizing and even condemning the standard fare of what he calls Hollywood cinema. For him, such films tell stories or they translate literature with its linear narrative onto a medium that he feels should be preeminently visual. He finds that, instead of foregrounding the image and the composition of visual elements as in the long history of painting, Hollywood-style directors seem mesmerized by the \"and then and then\" narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these provocative interviews, Greenaway tells of his ambition to make cinema a medium based more on image than on narrative. He explains his painterly approach in such films as \u003ci\u003eProspero's Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, defends his use of total nudity of both sexes, and declares that traditional literary-based cinema is dead. He believes that the most creative imaginations, the most innovative technologies, and the greatest financial resources are being devoted to television and the Internet and that Hollywood moviemaking is no longer in the vanguard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vernon Gras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578062551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578062553\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 07\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.87w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/05\/2000 pg. 86","brand":"Vernon Gras","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985184882943,"sku":"9781578062553","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d73515c2-bfb4-4e78-9df4-356f2d068a9c.jpg?v=1683276056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peter-greenaway-vernon-gras-9781578062553","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}