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Brian De Palma's split-screen : a life in film / Douglas Keesey.

Brian De Palma's split-screen : a life in film / Douglas Keesey.
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ISBN 9781628466973 (hardback)
1628466979 (hardback)
Name Keesey, Douglas author.
Title Brian De Palma's split-screen : a life in film / Douglas Keesey.
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
©2015
Description viii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-339) and index.
Contents The Wedding Party (1964-65) -- Murder à la Mod (1966) -- Greetings (1968) -- Dionysus in '69 (1970) -- Hi, Mom! (1970) -- Get to know your Rabbit (1972) -- Sisters (1973) -- Phantom of the Paradise (1974) -- Obsession (1976) -- Carrie (1976) -- The Fury (1978) -- Home Movies (1980) -- Dressed to Kill (1980) -- Blow Out (1981) -- Scarface (1983) -- Body Double (1984) -- Wise Guys (1986) -- The Untouchables (1987) -- Caualties of War (1989) -- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) -- Raising Cain (1992) -- Carlito's Way (1993) -- Mission: Impossible (1996) -- Snake Eyes (1998) -- Mission to Mars (2000) -- Femme Fatale (2002) -- The Black Dahlia (2006) -- Redacted (2007) -- Passion (2012).
Summary Over the last five decades, the film of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood history. Indeed Quentin Tarantino named Blow Out as one of his top three favourite films, praising De Palma as the best living American director. Picketed by feminists protesting its depictions of violence against women, Dressed to Kill helped to create the erotic thriller genre. Scarface, with its over-the-top performance by Al Pacino, remains a cult favourite. In the twenty-first century, De Palma has continued to experiment, incorporating elements from videogames (Femme Fatale), tabloid journalism (The Black Dahlia), YouTube, and Skype (Redacted and Passion) into his latest works. Douglas Keesey takes a biographical approach to De Palma's cinema, showing how De Palma reworks events from his own life into his films. Written in an accessible style and including a chapter on every one of his films to date, this book is for anyone who wants to know more about De Palma's controversial films or who wants to better understand the man who made them.
Subjects De Palma, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation
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