{"product_id":"blossoms-and-blood-postmodern-media-culture-and-the-films-of-paul-thomas-anderson-paperback-softback-9781477302217","title":"Blossoms and Blood; Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477302217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePostmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJason Sperb (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477302217, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJason Sperb is not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s something much better-an intelligent critic trying to discern what’s valuable and what’s not in Anderson’s body of cinematic work.\u003c\/div\u003e (Milwaukee Express) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBlossoms \u0026amp; Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Sperb's very strong new book, doesn't so much argue the case for PTA's greatness as show, slowly and methodically, how he moved through and within the ranks of American filmmaking-a case study of how even the most self-determined directors are always borne aloft by cultural events.\u003c\/div\u003e (Cineaste) \u003cdiv\u003eSperb has complete mastery of the critical and industrial histories of the films.\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his film festival debut \u003ci\u003eHard Eight\u003c\/i\u003e to ambitious studio epics \u003ci\u003eBoogie Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Thomas Anderson’s unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker’s evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson’s films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e explores Anderson’s films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America’s changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson’s work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson’s work, \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarrative Ambiguity in \u003ci\u003eHard Eight\u003c\/i\u003e (1996)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in \u003ci\u003eBoogie Nights\u003c\/i\u003e (1997)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. If That Was in a Movie, I Wouldn’\u003cbr\u003et Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e (1999)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of \u003ci\u003ePunch-Drunk Love\u003c\/i\u003e (2002)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e (2007)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword. On \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685403947288,"sku":"9781477302217","price":20.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blossoms-and-blood-postmodern-media-culture-and-the-films-of-paul-thomas-anderson-paperback-softback-9781477302217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}