Elaine May

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de Elizabeth Alsop

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Elaine May

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Elaine May

Année d'édition

2025 (January 07, 2025)

Editeur

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Contemporary Film Directors

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 192 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-0-252-08858-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director’s nonconformist and uncompromising vision while looking at May’s films against trends in classic and postclassical Hollywood. Shaped by her background and success in the theater, May brought the biting humor of her improv comedy to her filmmaking. But unfriendly media and a system hostile to both her methods and sensibility consigned her to “director’s jail” after the failure of Ishtar. As Alsop moves through the filmmaker’s four movies, she tracks May’s inventive treatment of favorite themes like hapless male characters and the inanities of American culture. She also considers May’s work in relation to her multifaceted career as a writer and performer.
A compelling reconsideration of an iconoclast and original, Elaine May reveals how a surprisingly radical auteur created her trademark cinema of discomfort.

À propos de l'auteur :
Elizabeth Alsop is an assistant professor of communication and media at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and a faculty member in Film and Media Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction.

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