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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807905903321

Autore

Rice Julian <1940->

Titolo

The Jarmusch way : spirituality and imagination in Dead man, Ghost dog, and The limits of control / / Julian Rice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-283-63931-9

0-8108-8573-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

791.43023/3092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Introduction; Chapter 02. Dead Man; Chapter 03. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; Chapter 04. The Limits of Control; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema. Three of his films-Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog (1999), and The Limits of Control (2009)-demonstrate the director's unique take on Eastern and Aboriginal spirituality. In The Jarmusch Way, Julian Rice looks closely at these three films and explores their relation to Eastern philosophy and particular works of Western literature, painting, and cinema. Making a case that this director deserves far more seri