Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff

Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff

Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes.

Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa, Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film.

Lisa Graff is a novelist, essayist, columnist, and teacher. Several of her essays were published in the Washington Post. One, No Teacher Can Compensate for Neglect Many Kids Suffer at Home, was the winner of the AAUW Mass Communications Award. Graff's essay about her family, My Father's Death from Alcohol, appeared in Woman's World.

Graff published a regular column in the Gaithersburg Gazette and writes a bimonthly column for the Cape Gazette.

Graff received her bachelor's degree in speech communications and English from Frostburg University and her master's degree in theater from Northwestern University. She spent her career teaching English, speech, drama, and ESL in Maryland's public schools. Graff retired in 2010 and now lives in Lewes, Delaware. She enjoys participating in the Rehoboth Writers Guild and writing. She is currently working on a children's book, Sassy the School Bus Kitten.

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ISBN 13	9780399164064
ISBN 10	0399164065
Titel	Lost in the Sun
Autor	Lisa Graff
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Philomel Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-05-26
Seitenanzahl	304
Preise	Texas Lone Star Reading List
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