Sayles Talk: New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles
Edited by Diane Carson and Heidi Kenaga
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Heidi Kenaga
- 1. Sayles between the Systems: Bucking “Industry Policy” and Indie Apolitical Chic
- Cynthia Baron
- 2. Breakups and Reunions: Late Realism in Early Sayles
- Alex Woloch
- 3. The False Salvation of the Here and Now: Aliens, Images, and the Commodification of Desire in The Brother from Another Planet
- Mark Bould
- 4. The Theo-Political Landscape of Matewan
- Martin F. Norden
- 5. Passersby and Politics: City of Hope and the Multiple Protagonist Film
- Greg M. Smith
- 6. Of Spectral Mothers and Lost Children: War, Folklore, and Psychoanalysis in The Secret of Roan Inish
- Maureen Turim and Mika Turim-Nygren
- 7. Oedipus Edits (Lone Star)
- Susan Felleman
- 8. Men in Context: Gender in Matewan and Men With Guns
- Klaus Rieser
- 9. Tourism and Territory: Constructing the Nation in Men With Guns (Hombres Armados)
- Hamilton Carroll
- 10. Psychic Borders and Legacies Left Hanging in Lone Star and Men With Guns
- Rebecca M. Gordon
- 11. The Space of Ambiguity: Representations of Nature in Limbo
- Laura Barrett
- Annotated Resources
- List of Contributors
- Index