Wes Anderson

by Kornhaber, Donna

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Title Statements

Full title :Wes Anderson / Donna Kornhaber.

Summary

"The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent eclecticism. Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson's style as the necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his body of work. Using Anderson's focus on collecting, Kornhaber situates the director as the curator of his filmic worlds, a prime mover who artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive collections and taxonomies. Anderson peoples each mise-en-scéne in his ongoing "Wesworld" with characters orphaned, lost, and out of place amidst a riot of handmade clutter and relics. Within, they seek a wholeness and collective identity they manifestly lack, with their pain expressed via an ordered emotional palette that, despite being muted, cries out for attention. As Kornhaber shows, Anderson's films offer nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of belonging--told by characters who possess it the least"--From publisher's website.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication:Urbana
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 176 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780252041181, 0252041186, 9780252082726, 0252082729
oclc:ocn969973593
LC Classification:PN1998.3.A526
Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092

A collector's cinema : Theorizing the collector -- Collecting with style : Anderson's worlds ; Anderson's comedy ; Anderson's camera -- The contents of the curio cabinet : Shelf 1: Anderson's family heirlooms : The Royal Tenenbaums ; The Darjeeling Limited ; Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Shelf 2: Anderson's faux families : Rushmore ; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ; Bottle Rocket -- Shelf 3: Anderson's matched pairs : Moonrise kingdom ; The Grand Budapest Hotel -- Collecting Wes Anderson : Anderson's collected works ; Building the collection: Anderson's method of production ; The collector as author -- The reorganization of life: an interview with Wes Anderson.

Subjects

Anderson, Wes Bibel, Philemonbrief Criticism, interpretation, etc Critiques littéraires literary criticism Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors … Performing arts Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -… United States