CHARLIE KAUFMAN AND HOLLYWOOD’S MERRY BAND OF PRANKSTERS, FABULISTS AND DREAMERS an excursion into the American New Wave DEREK HILL NEW TITLE SALES POINTS: • Detailed analysis of hit films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Donnie Darko, Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, Before Sunset and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Will appeal to fans of indie cinema and Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Pub. date: 22nd May 2008 Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures Price: £9.99 • The FIRST book to deal with these films as a coherent movement ISBN13: 978-1-84243-253-2 Binding: Paperback MARKETING: Format: B (198 X 129mm) film, film history Extent: 176pp + 8pp colour Targeted Marketing: Images: 8pp colour • contemporary cinema fans Rights: World • Specialist websites • Students and film historians Market none Restrictions: DESCRIPTION: Market: Film, gay culture Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid BIC code: ATK confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Rpt. Code: NP Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic forebears – the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others – did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague

(Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, et al), who, in the late 1950s and For a review copy, or for further information, throughout the 1960s, liberated screens around the world with a series of films that please contact: Chris Burrows PR challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told +44 (0)161 445 6635 – all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas. [email protected] Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realised, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this Publisher: Kamera Books new breed of American film captures the angst of its characters and the times in which PO Box 394 we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony and stylish wit that makes Harpenden the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be. This book Herts AL5 1XJ Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1582 761264 analyzes and traces the origins of the pivotal films and directors in this undeclared war on the mundane. UK Distribution: Turnaround BIOGRAPHY: 3 Olympia Trading Estate Coburg Rd Derek Hill has written for numerous web sites and publications such as The Third London N22 6TZ Alternative, Video Watchdog and The All-Movie Guide, and was a contributor to The Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 Fax: +44 (0)208 881 5088 Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Derek Hill currently lives in www.turnaround-psl.com Portland, Oregon, USA. This is his first book. www.kamerabooks.co.uk/charliekaufman/