Baker, Aaron.

Steven Soderbergh /Aaron Baker. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource. - Contemporary Film Directors .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; THE FILMS OF STEVEN SODERBERGH; Relational Independence; Remade by Steven Soderbergh: the Underneath, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Solaris; Star Actors: Julia Roberts, Michael Douglas, George Clooney; Cinema of Outsiders: Alienation and Crime; Critical Violence and Out of Sight; Words as Weapons: The Limey and Ocean's Eleven; Independent Form; Experiments in Digital Video: Full Frontal, K Street, Bubble; Class Conflict in High Definition: Che and The Girlfriend Experience. Music and Authorship in Ocean's Eleven and The LimeyINTERVIEWS WITH STEVEN SODERBERGH; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.

Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Steven Soderbergh's oeuvre. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this book illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.



9780252093012

2019717423


Soderbergh, Steven, 1963- --Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic Books.

PN1998 / .S748 2011