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The cinema of Sean Penn: in and out of place

By Penn , Deane , Sean; Williams

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231176248, 0231176244, 9780231176255, 0231176252
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
55 MB (57823750 bytes)
Series
Directors' cuts
Pages
vii, 143 pages: illustrations; 24 cm\217
Time added
2020-11-29 04:22:17

Description

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial worksThe Indian Runner(1991),The Crossing Guard(1995),The Pledge(2001), andInto 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.

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