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Todd Solondz

(book in English)

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by Julian Murphet

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Todd Solondz
Keywords: Todd Solondz
Publishing Date: 2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Collection: Contemporary Film Directors
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 192 pages • 21 €
5.5 x 8.25 inches (14 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook.

ISBN

978-0-252-08459-1

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Book Presentation:
Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz repeatedly takes moviegoers into a bland suburban junk space peopled by the damaged, the neglected, and the depraved.Julian Murphet appraises the career of the controversial, if increasingly ignored, indie film auteur. Through close readings and a discussion with the director, Murphet dissects how Solondz's themes and techniques serve stories laden with hot-button topics like pedophilia, rape, and family and systemic cruelty. Solondz's uncompromising return to the same motifs, stylistic choices, and characters reject any idea of aesthetic progression. Instead, he embraces an art of diminishing returns that satirizes the laws of valuation sustaining what we call cinema. It also reflects both Solondz's declining box office fortunes and the changing economics of independent film in an era of financial contraction.

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