The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait
Abstract
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme D'Or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This book considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analysing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood i ... More
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme D'Or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This book considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analysing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
Keywords:
film director,
cinematographer,
screenwriter,
film producer,
Steven Soderbergh,
Hollywood,
art cinema,
guerrilla filmmaker,
American cinema
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780231165518 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231165518.001.0001 |
