Research Catalog

Title

Oliver Stone : wakeup cinema / Frank Beaver.

Author

Beaver, Frank Eugene

Publication

New York : Twayne ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.

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Details

Description

xvi, 243 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• His provocative style has triggered an enormous critical response, with interviews, reviews, and commentaries numbering in the thousands - remarkable especially for a filmmaker whose first noteworthy film, Salvador, opened in 1986. In this thoroughgoing assessment of Stone's life and work, Frank Beaver not only uses the rich response to the films to inform his own analysis but makes the case that the director has used it as well.
• Oliver Stone is a master of in-your-face movie making. In picture after picture - in what the director refers to as "wakeup cinema"--He takes on big, controversial topics and verges on filmic assault of the audience to drive home his point of view.
• Stone's artistic warfare, evidenced in such widely seen films as Platoon and JFK, has brought him acclaim as one of the few commercially successful Hollywood directors unafraid to make bold, meaningful films and has brought him criticism as a self-anointed sayer of the truth on whatever subject his eye comes to rest.
• There is, Beaver suggests, "a telling symbiosis between critical response and ongoing practice in Stone's emergence as a unique director." Beaver explores the way in which criticism has undeniably helped to shape the course of Stone's ideas and filmmaking techniques.

Series Statement

Twayne's filmmakers series

Uniform Title

Twayne's filmmakers series.

Subject

Stone, Oliver > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Making Sense of the Oliver Stone Prism -- 2. Early Efforts: Seizure, Midnight Express, The Hand -- 3. Writing for the Establishment: Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, Year of the Dragon, 8 Million Ways to Die -- 4. Salvador -- 5. Platoon -- 6. Wall Street -- 7. Talk Radio -- 8. Born on the Fourth of July -- 9. The Doors -- 10. JFK -- 11. Final Analysis and Ensuing Issues.

ISBN

• 0805793267
• 0805793321 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^93039729^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library