[ecrea] CFP: Wes Anderson

A new publication from University of Illinois Press

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/wes-anderson

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*Wes Anderson***

/Donna Kornhaber///

"A decisive account of Anderson's movies, alive to their obvious charms, 
undaunted by their limits, and dedicated to activating their hidden 
potentials. This slim volume is both a sure introduction to Anderson's 
cinema and an authoritative reframing of the critical consensus. 
Anderson is the cinematic collector par excellence, and in this 
beautifully written study, Kornhaber plunges into the causes and 
consequences of that obsession in new and trenchant ways.”--J. D. 
Connor, author of /The Studios after the Studios: Neoclassical 
Hollywood, 1970 -2010./

/The Grand Budapest Hotel/and /Moonrise Kingdom/ have made Wes Anderson 
a filmmaking force. /Rushmore/  and /The Royal Tenenbaums/  have become 
quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves 
of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent 
eclecticism.   Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson's style as the 
necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his 
body of work. Using Anderson's focus on collecting, Kornhaber situates 
the director as the curator of his filmic worlds, a prime mover who 
artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive 
collections and taxonomies. Anderson peoples each mise-en-scéne in his 
ongoing "Wesworld" with characters orphaned, lost, and out of place 
amidst a riot of handmade clutter and relics. Within, they seek a 
wholeness and collective identity they manifestly lack, with their pain 
expressed via an ordered emotional palette that, despite being muted, 
cries out for attention. As Kornhaber shows, Anderson's films offer 
nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of 
belonging--told by characters who possess it the least.   Covering 
Anderson's entire oeuvre and including an interview with the director,  
Wes Anderson  is an entertaining look at one of our most beloved and 
polarizing filmmakers.

*Donna Kornhaber*  is an associate professor of English at the 
University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of /Charlie Chaplin, 
Director/.

University of Illinois Press | Contemporary Film Directors | August 
2017| 194pp |  | 9780252082726 | PB | £17.99*

20% discount with this code: CSL17WES**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, Canada, South America and Australia.


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