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A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman by Robert P. Kolker
4.0
Largely delved into the Marty and Altman chapters for my thesis, but really neat piece of film criticism. Rocks there’s multiple moments where I was reading something about The Long Goodbye or Mean Streets and said to myself “I thought the same exact thing!”
Agree with my professor who recommended this 1) It’s a little reliant on auteur theory 2) there could certainly be a little more female representation in film subject and director, I don’t think looking at Elaine May’s first two screwball riffs would be too unheard of for this subject (especially considering how much Kolker refers back to Hawks), but she made 4 films vs Altman making something like 300 million. But still Kolker’s head is in the right place for most of these films and knows what he’s talking about.
Agree with my professor who recommended this 1) It’s a little reliant on auteur theory 2) there could certainly be a little more female representation in film subject and director, I don’t think looking at Elaine May’s first two screwball riffs would be too unheard of for this subject (especially considering how much Kolker refers back to Hawks), but she made 4 films vs Altman making something like 300 million. But still Kolker’s head is in the right place for most of these films and knows what he’s talking about.