{"title":"Books by Paul Schrader","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780571144648","title":"Taxi Driver","description":"A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.One of the key films of the seventies, it won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Festival.This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss their unique relationship - one which stretches from Taxi Driver through Raging Bull to The Last Temptation of Christ.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204026237106,"sku":"9780571144648","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571144648_edf10841-4cd3-4c82-9b97-14cc75bf012b.jpg?v=1786013367"},{"product_id":"9780571221769","title":"Schrader on Schrader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchrader on Schrader\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to partake of 'worldly pleasures' such as movies, Paul Schrader nevertheless defied his upbringing to become first a leading film critic, then a star pupil among the US 'movie brat' generation of the 1970s: writing the coruscating screenplays for Martin Scorsese's \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRaging Bull \u003c\/i\u003eand directing such provocative pictures as \u003ci\u003eBlue Collar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHardcore \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Gigolo\u003c\/i\u003e. Maturity has never sated his appetite for attacking 'difficult' material, from adapting Kazantzakis' \u003ci\u003eThe Last Temptation\u003c\/i\u003e for Scorsese, to filming the singular lives of Mishima and Patty Hearst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchrader on Schrader \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour through this formidable body of work, including some of Schrader's finest critical essays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399407272114,"sku":"9780571221769","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571221769_cd84971a-cee1-4ef5-a44a-9ce07780040b.jpg?v=1786013637"},{"product_id":"9780520296817","title":"Transcendental Style in Film – Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, With a New Introduction","description":"With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291195388277,"sku":"9780520296817","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520296817_b83273b9-d535-40b2-8e86-e0dcf4f08c54.jpg?v=1786013397"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-paul-schrader.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}