"Brideshead Revisited": the Past Redeemed by Robert Murray Davis

"Brideshead Revisited": the Past Redeemed by Robert Murray Davis

When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director--it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Smith (Dogma), David Fincher (Fight Club), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), Ben Stiller (Reality Bites), Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor), and dozens of others are all members of Generation X, the much talked about but much misunderstood successors to baby boomers. This book is a critical study of the films directed by Gen Xers and how those directors have been influenced by their generational identity. While Generation X as a whole sometimes seems to lack direction, its filmmakers have devoted their careers to making powerful statements about contemporary society and their generation's role in it. Each section of the book deals with an aspect of Gen X filmmaking, including the influence of popular culture, postmodern narrative devices, slackerdom and the lack of direction, disenfranchisement and nihilism, the ever-evolving role of technology, gender issues and sexuality, the question of race, the influence of older filmmakers, and visions of the future.

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ISBN 13	9780805781380
ISBN 10	0805781382
Title	"Brideshead Revisited": the Past Redeemed
Author	Robert Murray Davis
Series	Twayne's Masterwork Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Twayne Pub
Year published	1990-10-01
Number of pages	168
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