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oapen-20.500.12657-249342022-04-26T11:14:59Z The cinema of Oliver Stone Scott , Ian Thompson, Henry Oliver Stone Hollywood Auteurism Vietnam Politics bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFB Individual film directors, film-makers 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. 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T10:14:30Z 2020-04-01T10:14:30Z 2019 book 1005172 OCN: 1126153757 9781526147240 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24934 eng application/pdf n/a 9781526147240_fullhl.pdf https://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526108715/ Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526147240 10.7765/9781526147240 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd a897f645-c917-4be8-a0db-e8b3f64cac47 9781526147240 304 Manchester, UK University of Manchester open access
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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.
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