Research Catalog

Title

The cinema of Oliver Stone / Norman Kagan.

Author

Kagan, Norman.

Publication

New York : Continuum, 2000.

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Details

Description

312 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Oliver Stone has been hailed (and reviled) as the "director of the Sixties" for his socially concerned and politically charged films on Vietnam, Latin America, Wall Street, pop music, the JFK assassination, and the intertwined nature of celebrity and violence in American culture. Giving particular attention to Stone's stormy relationship with the Establishment and his dazzling cinematic techniques, film scholar Norman Kagan examines all of the controversial director's work. The Cinema of Oliver Stone shows how the movies were inspired, how they were made, and what the critics' - and other filmmakers' - reactions have been. By including analyses of films Stone worked on as a writer but not as director (Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, and others), we get a complete look at the man and his work.

Alternative Title

Oliver Stone

Subject

• Motion picture producers and directors
• Stone, Oliver > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. [295]-300.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Beginnings 13 -- 2 False Starts 29 -- 3 Salvador 82 -- 4 Platoon 98 -- 5 Wall Street 112 -- 6 Talk Radio 130 -- 7 Born on the Fourth of July 145 -- 8 The Doors 164 -- 9 Jfk 183 -- 10 Heaven and Earth 208 -- 11 Natural Born Killers 227 -- 12 Nixon 253 -- 13 U Turn 270.

ISBN

0826412440 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00267272^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library