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Oliver Stone's America : dreaming the myth outward

Author: Susan Mackey-Kallis
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Series: Film studies (Boulder, Colo.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Oliver Stone, polemicist, leftist, artist, and - surprisingly for politically conservative America - mainstream director, is one of the most controversial American filmmakers in Hollywood. His films include JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, The Doors, Salvador, Talk Radio, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - all political, passionate, and disturbing. This book embraces Stone's work, analyzes
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Mackey-Kallis, Susan.
Oliver Stone's America.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604042435
Named Person: Oliver Stone; Oliver Stone; Oliver Stone
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Mackey-Kallis
ISBN: 0813326621 9780813326627 081332663X 9780813326634
OCLC Number: 34952814
Description: ix, 166 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Stone's Dilemma: A Platonist Seeking Postmodern "Truth," or the Quandary of the Left-Wing Intellectual in Hollywood --
2. Betrayal in the Garden and Death of the Dream --
3. Descent into Hell: The Vietnam Nightmare --
4. After the Fall: (Self-) Portraits of the Tortured Artist-Visionary --
5. Meeting the Shadow and the Journey Home --
6. Final Thoughts.
Series Title: Film studies (Boulder, Colo.)
Responsibility: Susan Mackey-Kallis.

Abstract:

Oliver Stone, polemicist, leftist, artist, and - surprisingly for politically conservative America - mainstream director, is one of the most controversial American filmmakers in Hollywood. His films include JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, The Doors, Salvador, Talk Radio, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - all political, passionate, and disturbing. This book embraces Stone's work, analyzes his films, and places him inside the tradition of.

American political filmmaking. Mackey-Kallis argues that Stone's films are mythological constructions based on historical events and personae which draw upon "the inevitable tension between social actuality and film form." Not simply an aesthetic contemplation, this book analyzes Oliver Stone's films as artistically structured instruments for public communication. Ample illustrations illuminate her discussions.

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