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With his characteristic style often recognizable from a single frame, Wes Anderson is one of the most iconic directors in American cinema. His acclaimed and inventive films, such as Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel, examine dysfunctional family dynamics, male bonding, first love, and the experience of grief and loss through a deeply personal and imaginative lens of nostalgia.
In this book, Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the filmic and literary influences that have shaped Wes Anderson's distinctive voice, revealing what makes him one of today's most significant filmmakers. This analysis considers the director's fascination with François Truffaut and the French New Wave and traces how Anderson has drawn on authors such as Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, Stefan Zweig, and James Baldwin. Dilley discusses how Anderson's films treat questions of gender, race, and class and analyzes his meticulously detailed yet pseudohistorical representations of the past.
This second edition of The Cinema of Wes Anderson adds discussion of the films the director has released since the book's original publication in 2017: Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, and The Phoenician Scheme, as well as a series of short films for Netflix based on stories by Roald Dahl, including the Academy Award-winning The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Fully updated throughout, it remains the definitive account of the life's work of a beloved and influential director.
Contents
Introduction: Wes Anderson as Auteur: A History
1. Wes Anderson: His Position in American Cinema and Culture
2. Gender, Youth, and the Exploration of Masculinity in Bottle Rocket
3. "Sic Transit Gloria": Transgressing the Boundaries of Adolescence in Rushmore
4. The Interplay of Narrative Text, Language, and Film: Literary Influence and Intertextuality in The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Opposition and Resolution: The Dissonance of Celebrity in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
6. Fragmentary Narratives/Incomplete Identities in The Darjeeling Limited
7. Adaptation and Homage: The World of Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. Reconstitution of the "Family" and Construction of Normalized Gender in Moonrise Kingdom
9. Literary Influence and Memory: Stefan Zweig and The Grand Budapest Hotel
10. "The Underdog Dogs": Innocence and Evil in Anderson's "A Boy and His Dog" Narrative in Isle Of Dogs
11. "Silence! Writers Writing": The French Dispatchas Homage to the New Yorker and Twentieth-Century Literary Journalism
12. The Chasm of Grief and a Glimpse of the Unknowable: Death, the Desert, and Space Exploration in Asteroid City
13. "A Trial Period 'Of Being Your Daughter.'": Family Conflict, Redemption, and Lasting Legacy in The Phoenician Scheme
14. Wes Anderson's Short Films and Commercial Work
Conclusion: Memory and Narrative in the Works of Wes Anderson
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
