John Sayles
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[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book intro in downloadable .pdf] "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck... more
John Sayles is one of America’s most successful independent filmmakers, whose works include Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980), City of Hope (1991), and Lone Star (1996). This article examines Sayles’ portrait of place in Sunshine State... more
""The theories of the Russian literary critic and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) are highly suggestive for helping to understand cinema, yet their usefulness has yet to be fully and accessibly articulated in relation to the key... more
An overview of the production and critical response to John Sayles' RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7.
Cognitive dissonance provides a model for understanding how we experience film texts as profound. This article looks at the ways in which filmmakers might motivate or exploit the pleasure of resolving familiar narrative dissonance to... more
Comentamos la ideología y estética de la película de John Sayles 'Silver City', completando la crítica de Roger Ebert. En particular examinamos la cuestión de la reflexividad: la representación del posicionamiento de la propia película... more
90+ reviews of dream-related films. Originally published in Dream Time, magazine of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
In this chapter, I draw on one film by American independent filmmaker John Sayles to consider the relationship between place and spirituality. To provide a conceptual context, I begin with theologian Philip Sheldrake’s Space for the... more
A major theme in American independent filmmaker John Sayles’ films is exploring relationships between people and places, particularly as those places incorporate economic and existential limitations or possibilities. In Sayles’ 1999... more
Spanish abstract: 'Lone Star' (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas)... more
Como falar dos anos 90? Quando eles começaram? Quando eles acabaram? Começaram com as esperanças de uma Europa unificada e democrática após a queda do Muro de Berlin e terminaram com a queda do World Trade Center e a crescente belicização... more
A major theme in American independent filmmaker John Sayles’ films is exploring relationships between people and places, particularly as those places incorporate economic and existential limitations or possibilities. In Sayles’ 1999... more