ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen by Thomas Austin - 9781399510936

Name: ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen by Thomas Austin - 9781399510936
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueenAuthor(s): Thomas Austin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399510936, 978-1399510936\nSynopsis\nWorking across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC, Steve McQueens prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. This vital collection interrogates his body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them. It offers critical insights into McQueens engagements with race, gender, the body, love and pain, and his abiding self-reflexive interest in the potential of multiple audio-visual forms. The first director to win both the Turner Prize and an Oscar for best picture, McQueen is probably the most important working British film maker. This book explores the controversies as well as the achievements in his stellar career so.