The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231165518)

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.

Author: Andrew Dewaard, R. Colin Tait
ISBN-10: 023116551X
ISBN-13: 9780231165518
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2013