{"product_id":"david-o-russell-interviews-paperback","title":"David O. Russell: Interviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly Willis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has also investigated politics with explosive satire. In his most recent films, including \u003cem\u003eAmerican Hustle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSilver Linings Playbook\u003c\/em\u003e, Russell examines characters and situations that are at once everyday and also extraordinary. Whatever the project, Russell is driven to explore the idiosyncrasies that make each character human, and he extends that curiosity to explore what makes each actor unique. His attentiveness to his cast members has earned him the label of \"actor's director,\" due in no small part to the many nominations and awards earned by a long list of Hollywood stars in his movies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Russell has also become one of our era's most interesting formal stylists as he adopts a visual design appropriate to each of his film's thematic concerns. The result may be a color palette resembling the washed-out pages of a newspaper achieved by manipulating the film stock for \u003cem\u003eThree Kings\u003c\/em\u003e or the tumultuous opening of \u003cem\u003eThe Fighter\u003c\/em\u003e when an audacious, roving camera plunges viewers straight into the story from the very first shots of the film. Rather than building a signature style, Russell has instead tested the varied possibilities of cinematic expression.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This career-spanning volume features conversations with scholars and journalists as well as filmmakers. Speaking to directors like Alexander Payne and Spike Jonze, Russell contextualizes each of his films, offers an intimate account of his evolving writing and directing process, and opens his life to reveal how a remarkable body of work has come to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolly Willis \u003c\/b\u003eis professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as chair of the Division of Media Arts + Practice. She is author of \u003ci\u003eFast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Ecology of Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRES\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, cofounder of \u003ci\u003eFilmmaker Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and cocurator of experimental media festival RESFEST.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716825583679,"sku":"9781496818218","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7e40e8e4580bd61a510945c4920e4a80.webp?v=1765076317","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/david-o-russell-interviews-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}