By Frederick Luis Aldama,Charles Ramírez Berg
ISBN-10: 029276121X
ISBN-13: 9780292761216
ISBN-10: 0292761244
ISBN-13: 9780292761247
Robert Rodriguez stands by myself because the such a lot profitable U.S. Latino filmmaker at the present time, whose paintings has single-handedly introduced U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century international cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen movies in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has scripted, directed, shot, edited, and scored approximately all his movies for the reason that his first breakout luck, El Mariachi, in 1992. With new motion pictures continuously popping out and the release of his El Rey community tv channel, he gets unceasing insurance within the leisure media, yet systematic scholarly research of Rodriguez's movies is barely simply beginning.
The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez deals the 1st prolonged research of this significant filmmaker's artwork. Accessibly written for enthusiasts in addition to students, it addresses all of Rodriguez's function motion pictures via Spy young children 4 and Machete Kills, and his filmmaking approach from preliminary concept, to script, to movie (with its myriad visible and auditory parts and choices), to ultimate product, to (usually) serious and advertisement good fortune. as well as his shut research of Rodriguez's paintings, Frederick Luis Aldama offers an unique interview with the filmmaker, during which they talk about his profession and his dating to the movie undefined. This enjoyable and much-needed scholarly evaluate of Rodriguez's paintings shines new gentle on numerous key themes, together with the filmmaker's inventive, inexpensive, effective method of filmmaking; the reputation of Latino motion pictures and filmmakers in mainstream cinema; and the intake and reception of movie within the twenty-first century.
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