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Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovitch, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centres on an alienated main character, and he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Steven Soderbergh
• Author: Aaron Baker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780252077968
• ISBN: 0252077962
• ID: 04365291
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 142 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2011

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