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Neil Jordan

  • ISBN-13: 9780252075308
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Maria T. Pramaggiore
  • Price: AUD $47.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2008
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]
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Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, the Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes.
''This book is a brilliant treatment of perhaps the most important contemporary Irish filmmaker. Under Pramaggiore's keen scrutiny, a career that might have seemed diffuse emerges as remarkably coherent, even while Pramaggiore's scrupulous attention to nuance never slights the differences across Jordan's films. An exceptional contribution to film studies.'' James Morrison, author of Roman Polanski ''Her critical position hinges on a reading of the director's oeuvre as being defined by his exploration of the postmodern gothic...fine contributions to the study of this key Irish film-maker...Pramaggiore's will be a set text.'' Ruth Barton, Trinity College Dublin. Author of Acting Irish in Hollywood: from Fitzgerald to Farrell
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