At 13:49 22-08-03 -0700, you wrote:
>A quick follow-up on deconstruction. The other day,
the
>Independent Film Channled showed a chapter in a
series
>dedicated to film directors. This one dealt with
the
>seventies, one of the great decades for American
cinema.
>
>They had interviews with Corman, Scorsese, Altman,
Coppola,
>Hopper, Mazursky, Hellman, and several other
protagonists
>of the era (actors and directors). The
protagonists
>themselves make it clear that what they were doing,
despite
>the differences in temperament and thematic choices,
was a
>deconstruction of Hollywood itself, of its
production
>system, of its censorship system, of its star
system.
>[snip]
Deconstruction? Yes in a way... but we could call most of
what they do/did an indirect criticism of the American film
industry system, to which they were also applying derision
and sometimes even parody or satire. Mainly trying to devoid
the system they live(d) in. Altman is for sure our best
deconstructionist in that list... A kind of
"dynamitero of film genres".
On the other hand I always considered Peckinpah as a master
of deconstruction in films: deconstruction of the Western
genre, and most of all of the graphic violence (which is most
of the time misunderstood by the general audience... and by
most of the critics). Thinking twice, I could even claim he's
also a deconstructionist of corruption, but this is less
openly obvious in his films.
Anyway, Peckinpah is one of the great film directors of the
second half of the 20th century. Obvious fact, seen even in
his several mutilated films that were distributed at the
time.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Atehns/6384
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