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"The Films of Oliver Stone is a collection of essays on the work of one of Hollywood's most successful and controversial contemporary filmmakers. Stone's work has played a major role in the debate over whether Hollywood has promoted the decline of American culture during the last decade or merely reflected it." "The Films of Oliver Stone provides a more sophisticated, detailed, and probing analysis of Stone's career as a filmmaker than that available...
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"Chris Salewicz spent two months talking with Oliver Stone getting the inside stories of the making of his movies."--BOOK JACKET. "In addition, and for the first time, Variety, the bible of the movie business, has permitted the unabridged reviews for all Stone's movies, including a full list of credits for each film, to be reproduced together creating a unique reference source."--Jacket
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Oliver Stone is a master of in-your-face movie making. In picture after picture - in what the director refers to as "wakeup cinema"--He takes on big, controversial topics and verges on filmic assault of the audience to drive home his point of view.
Stone's artistic warfare, evidenced in such widely seen films as Platoon and JFK, has brought him acclaim as one of the few commercially successful Hollywood directors unafraid to make bold, meaningful...
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"This book brings Stone face-to-face with some of his critics and supporters and allows Stone himself ample room to respond to their views. These writers critique Stone's most contested films to show how they may distort, amplify, or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict. Their essays enlarge our understanding of Stone's films, while also giving us a fuller appreciation of the filmmaker as artist and intellectual."--Jacket.
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