Performing Arts Individual Director
Ben Wheatley
Confusion and Carnage
- Publisher
- The Critical Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2016
- Category
- Individual Director
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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.
