The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
Wallflower Press (Footprint Books), $35.95 pb, 202 pp, 9780231165518
The cinema of Steven Soderbergh
In many ways, Steven Soderbergh could be described as an exemplary postmodern film-maker: smart, prolific, and pragmatic, at ease with Hollywood blockbusters and low-budget experiments alike. He knows enough about the nuts and bolts of technique to serve as his own cinematographer, and enough about the science of deal-making to sustain a parallel career as a producer (thirty films and counting, including such notable titles as Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven [2002]).
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