Inconsistent Cinema: Paul Thomas Anderson, There will be blood and the postmodern filmmaker

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Inconsistent Cinema: Paul Thomas Anderson, There will be blood and the postmodern filmmaker

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s early work up to and including There Will Be Blood (2007) are examples of incoherent, postmodern cinema. Anderson’s formative years produced four critically acclaimed features, Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), and Punch-Drunk Love (2002), all of which presented related themes and aesthetics. Though There Will Be Blood does depict a complex father-son relationship similar to that found in Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia, the film is styli...

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2021

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Barrett, Kyle

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14435

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Postmodernism / Hollywood Cinema / Film Production

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