Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One. Tarkovsky's Solaris and the Cinematic Abyss
• Chapter Two. Steven Soderbergh's Tinted World
• Chapter Three. Aronofsky, Sundance, and the Return to Nature
• Chapter Four. Mulholland Drive, Cahiers du cinéma, and the Horror of Cinephilia
• Chapter Five. Spielberg's A.I.: Animation, Time, and Digital Culture
• Chapter Six. Cinema against Art: Artists and Paintings in Contemporary American Film
• Chapter Seven. A Plague of Frogs: Expressionism and Naturalism in 1990s American Film
• Chapter Eight. Situating American Film in Godard, Jarmusch, and Scorsese
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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A groundbreaking study of how modern American filmmakers are using the "art film" model to explore the power of nature versus the power of art.

About the Author

Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.