A Cinema of Loneliness (4th Edition)

• Updated to include recent works by Steven Spielberg and the late masterpieces of Robert Altman
• Contains new material on a diverse group of directors defining present-day US cinema, such as Todd Haynes, Judd Apatow, Christopher Nolan,
• "The best book on contemporary American film ."—The Washington Post Book World
• "Brings the films into clearer focus for film-goers. The filmmakers themselves will find Kolker's analysis of their works extremely accurate."—Martin Scorsese

Readership: Film buffs, students and professors of film studies, specifically American film; readers of periodicals like Film Quarterly, Film Comment, Cineaste, and American Quarterly.

Robert Kolker, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland

Robert Kolker is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous works on film and media, including The Altering Eye; Film, Form, and Culture; and Media Studies: An Introductory Textbook.

Preface to First Edition
Preface to Fourth Editoin
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, and David Fincher: Body's Montage, History's Mise-en-Scene, Contours of the Horizontal Line
Chapter Two: Stanley Kubrick: Tectonics of the Mechanical Man
Chapter Three: Martin Scorsese: Expressions of the Streets
Chapter Four: Steven Spielberg, War, Superheroes, and the Digital Mise-en-Scene
Chapter Five: Robert Altman: Radical Surfaces and Independent Means