'As a filmmaker and as an essayist, Paul Schrader has always been focused on the life of spirit, often under the most debased conditions and shocking circumstances. That focus, as a writer and as a director, has resulted in several truly remarkable pictures. We've worked together on and off throughout the better part of our lives. It hasn't always been easy, but it has always been fruitful and, quite often, revelatory. Truly, I don't know where the art of cinema would be without his work, his mind, and his presence. This collection is a just and illuminating tribute to the work of a very important artist.'
Martin Scorsese
'Paul Schrader stands almost alone as an American who has made significant contributions as screenwriter, director and film critic. This book is the first to provide an in depth study that interlaces these three aspects of Schrader's lifetime of work in film. Here is fascinating reading about an important filmmaker.'
Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
'This anthology uses the occasion of the director's renewed popularity to make connections between his early successes and his more recent projects. It will be useful both to those new to Schrader's work and those seeking to better understand how particular films fit within his overall filmography.'
Kenneth R. Morefield, Professor of English, Campbell University
Paul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a chapter-length interview with Schrader himself, conducted by the editors.
Michelle E. Moore PhD is Professor of English at the College of DuPage. Brian Brems is an Associate Professor of English at the College of DuPage.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Taxi Driver Forward, Brian Brems and Michelle E. Moore; 1: Schrader and Style, Erik M. Bachman; 2: Movement and Meaning: The "unmotivated" Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader, Deborah Allison; 3: Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons, Billy Stevenson; 4: "Thinking White:" Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar, Scott Balcerzak; 5: Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader's Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ, Erica Moulton; 6: "So I find another form of expression": Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Thomas Prasch; 7: Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst, Brian Brems; 8: Paul Schrader's Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System, Robert Dassanowsky; 9: "Just Being Transparent Baby": Surveillance Culture, Digitization and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader's The Canyons, James Slaymaker; 10: "Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation": Paul Schrader's Eco-Theology in First Reformed, Tatiana Prorokova; 11: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed, Robert Ribera; Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems on 9/27/2018 at the Rail Line Diner, NYC; Filmography; Bibliography
