《Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors)》是由George Kouvaros撰寫、伊利諾伊大學出版社於2008年5月23日出版的電影研究專著，屬於"Contemporary Film Directors"叢書平裝本，定價19.95美元，ISBN為9780252075087。
該書系首部全面研究導演保羅·施拉德電影的學術著作，通過訪談與作品分析探討其多樣化的影像風格及多重創作影響。研究聚焦施拉德電影中男性疏離、暴力與負罪感等核心主題，揭示《美國舞男》《計程車司機》《苦難》等作品在商業框架與個人表達間的張力。書中同時考察施拉德的合作背景與創作脈絡，剖析其作品中執迷、記憶與創傷體驗的戲劇化呈現方式。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Paul Schrader (Contemporary Film Directors)
- 作者：George Kouvaros
- 出版時間：2008年5月23日
- 出版社： University of Illinois Press
- ISBN：9780252075087
內容簡介
As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines the different styles of his work and the multiple influences on which it draws. A defining feature of Schrader's career is his capacity to engage in a range of collaborations and production contexts while returning to a consistent set of themes, character types, and dramatic scenarios. Going beyond the affirmation of a directorial vision, Schrader creates a cinema driven by issues of obsession, memory, and the difficult nature of experience. Representative of a new generation of American writer-directors of the 1970s, Schrader's films highlight the tension between old and new ways of telling a story and between the maintenance of commercial formulas and openness to individual expression.George Kouvaros draws on a personal interview conducted with Schrader and the director's prior commentary to trace common motivations and impulses behind such well-known films as "Light Sleeper", "American Gigolo", "Affliction", "Auto Focus", "Taxi Driver", and "Patty Hearst". Kouvaros reads Schrader's films not only in terms of a number of important themes such as male obsession and estrangement, but also in regard to harder to define issues that include melancholia, trauma, and the complex linkages of violence and guilt that bind individuals to places and each other.
