{"product_id":"brian-de-palma-interviews-paperback-softback-9781578065165","title":"Brian De Palma; Interviews (Paperback \/ softback) 9781578065165","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBrian De Palma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInterviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurence F. Knapp (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781578065165\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 January 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e197 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBrian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years he reigned as the \"\"master of the macabre,\"\" the man who massacred the class of '76 in \u003cem\u003eCarrie\u003c\/em\u003e and stalked Angie Dickinson in \u003cem\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/em\u003e. By the mid-1980s De Palma found himself assaulting his audience and critics, daring them to watch a chainsaw enter a man's skull in \u003cem\u003eScarface\u003c\/em\u003e and a power drill disembowel a defenseless woman in \u003cem\u003eBody Double\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What drove De Palma to such extremes? In the late 1960s, he wanted to be the next Jean-Luc Godard and revolutionize American cinema. Instead, he found himself ostracized when Warner Bros. removed him from \u003cem\u003eGet to Know Your Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, his first Hollywood feature. De Palma sought the refuge of Alfred Hitchcock until the late 1970s (\u003cem\u003eSisters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eObsession\u003c\/em\u003e), when his surreal approach to horror became a genre unto itself (\u003cem\u003eCarrie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/em\u003e). Ironically, just as De Palma achieved the success that his fellow Movie Brats George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg had enjoyed since the mid-1970s, he could not hide his resentment toward Hollywood. After battling with the MPAA in the 1980s, he gradually became part of the mainstream with the success of \u003cem\u003eThe Untouchables\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMission: Impossible\u003c\/em\u003e, although he never suppressed his desire to make audiences aware of his camera-eye and his dark, penetrating worldview.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBrian De Palma: Interviews\u003c\/em\u003e follows De Palma's fortunes as he makes the difficult transition from underground filmmaker to celebrity auteur. In profiles and q\u0026amp;a interviews, he emerges as a fascinating figure of excess and ambivalence. De Palma is not afraid to share his opinions about censorship, violence, feminism, American culture, and the fate of cinema in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681537716504,"sku":"9781578065165","price":20.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/brian-de-palma-interviews-paperback-softback-9781578065165","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}