Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into 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.
| ISBN: | 9780231176255 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2015 |
| Author: | Deane Williams |
| Publisher: | Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Directors' Cuts |
| Genres: |
Individual film directors, film-makers |
Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into 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.
The Cinema of Sean Penn features in the following genres: Individual film directors, film-makers
The Cinema of Sean Penn is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Cinema of Sean Penn was written by Deane Williams and published by Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press
The Cinema of Sean Penn has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Directors' Cuts series