{"product_id":"blossoms-and-blood","title":"Blossoms and Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom his film festival debut \u003ci\u003eHard Eight\u003c\/i\u003e to ambitious studio epics \u003ci\u003eBoogie Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Thomas Anderson’s unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker’s evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson’s films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e explores Anderson’s films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America’s changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson’s work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson’s work, \u003ci\u003eBlossoms and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Jason Sperb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614244921724,"sku":"9781477302217","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781477302217_7b958807-ad79-4003-aac1-75cd6ec322ec.jpg?v=1741268175","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/blossoms-and-blood","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}