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Performing Arts Individual Director

Ben Wheatley

Confusion and Carnage

by (author) Adam Nayman

Publisher
The Critical Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2016
Category
Individual Director
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781941629321
    Publish Date
    Dec 2016
    List Price
    $21.95

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Description

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has made a name for himself directing stylish genre films likeKill List,A Field in England, andHigh-Rise. In the first published study of his work, Adam Nayman meticulously examines the themes and visual style of Wheatley's films, connecting them to the history of British genre cinema and placing this unique filmmaker in a larger context while arguing for his early inclusion into the canon. The book also includes a new, in-depth interview with Wheatley.

Adam Naymanis a contributing editor toCinemaScopeand author ofIt Doesn't Suck: Showgirls(ECW Press, 2014).

About the author

Adam Nayman is a contributing editor for Cinema Scope and writes on film for The Ringer, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, and Little White Lies. He has written books on Showgirls and the films of Ben Wheatley and lectures on cinema and journalism at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

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