Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-Makers in Recent American Cinema » (1ST LIMELI)

A ground-breaking critical survey of the talented, audacious, and influential directors - Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, among others - who, dominating the "independent scene," have revitalized American film. Illustrated throughout, index.

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Originally published in 1998 by Prion Books, London. Andrew, film editor of the British magazine is an excellent film critic, adept at relaying clearly both his critical notions and the, at times, extremely oblique plots of the films he discusses. Among the directors whose work he examines in-depth are Spike Lee, David Lynch, John Sayles, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and perhaps most sensitively, Todd Haynes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)