1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552364803316

Autore

Scott Ian <1954->

Titolo

The cinema of Oliver Stone : art, authorship and activism / / Ian Scott and Henry Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK, : Manchester University Press, 2019

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book charts and analyses the work of Oliver Stone – arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. Drawing on previously unseen production files from Oliver Stone’s personal archives and hours of interviews both with Stone and a range of present and former associates within the industry, the book employs a thematic structure to explore Stone’s life and work in terms of war, politics, money, love and corporations. This allows the authors both to provide a synthesis of earlier and later film work as well as locate that work within Stone’s developing critique of government. The book explores the development of aesthetic changes in Stone’s filmmaking and locates those changes within ongoing academic debates about the relationship between film and history as well as wider debates about Hollywood and the film industry. All of this is explored with detailed reference to the films themselves and related to a set of wider concerns that Stone has sought to grapple with -the American Century, exceptionalism and the American Dream, global empire, government surveillance and corporate accountability. The book concludes with a perspective on Stone’s ‘brand’ as not just an auteur and commercially viable independent filmmaker but as an activist arguing for a very distinct kind of American exceptionalism that



seeks a positive role for the US globally whilst eschewing military adventurism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046662003321

Autore

Keneally Thomas

Titolo

A Bloody Good Rant : My Passions, Memories and Demons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2022

©2021

ISBN

9781742698977

1742698972

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages)

Disciplina

994

Soggetti

Authors, Australian - 20th century

Grandfathers - Australia

Faith

Death

Refugees - Australia

Republicanism - Australia

Climatic changes - Australia

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of

Authors, Australian

Civilization

Climatic changes

Economic history

Grandfathers

Manners and customs

Politics and government

Refugees

Republicanism

History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

History

Australia History 20th century

Australia History 21st century

Australia Civilization 20th century

Australia Civilization 21st century



Australia Politics and government 20th century

Australia Politics and government 21st century

Australia Social life and customs 20th century

Australia Social life and customs 21st century

Australia Economic conditions 20th century

Australia Economic conditions 21st century

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- About the Author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's note -- Commonwealth -- The ancient crowd: my hero (ancestor) -- Enigmas: history/myth story -- Two thousand generations -- The great Australian unease -- Enigmas: any mug can write a novel -- The climate and things around: selling them, buying them -- The shock of the global -- Enigmas: third phase, grandparency -- Mephistopheles and the boys from the CIA -- Women of Australia -- Fracking for the market -- The climate business: flames -- 'Unnatural males' and me -- And who is this Adam Smith bloke? -- The Yartz, god bless 'em -- Enigmas: the greatest scandal -- The CIA man I knew, and associated questions -- Enigmas: death, the cosmic 'ouch!' -- Our monarchical republic -- The people of the human god -- Enigmas: the presence/absence -- The reffos go multicultural -- Weeping for SIEV X -- Two sides of Australia: living in Chinese exile/being a Hajji -- That old chestnut: what is an Australian? -- Postscript: a new name, COVID-19 -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection he draws on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding. He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers. And he introduces us to some of the people, both great and small, who have dappled his life"--Publisher's description.