The Cinema of Sean Penn

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by Deane Williams

Type

Studies

Subject

Actor > Sean Penn

Keywords

Sean Penn

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Collection

Directors' Cuts

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 208 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-231-17624-8

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Book Presentation:
Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, and directors, and the political lineage to which Penn belongs, which reveal the deep cultural structures that concern each particular film.

About the Author:
Deane Williams is associate professor in film and screen studies at Monash University in Melbourne. He is editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film and coauthor (with Noel King and Con Verevis) of Australian Film Theory and Criticism.

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