Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in film and literature in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. His books include Faulkner's Media Romance and Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde.
"Todd Solondz, the dark horse of independent American cinema, has
somehow escaped critical appraisal-until now. With this
theoretically innovative and eminently readable volume, Julian
Murphet has reframed Solondz's inimitable brand of cinema as a
social document that comes closer to capturing the experience of
late capitalism in the United States than the work of any other
living filmmaker. Murphet's achievement is to show unequivocally
that this world, a deracinated junk space filled with pedophiles
and perverts, is our own. This book will be an indispensable guide
to all of us that wonder about the hideously kitsch and just plain
hideous aesthetic that has evolved over the duration of Solondz's
career, and perhaps why it all feels so nauseatingly
familiar."--Mark Steven, author of Splatter Capital: A Guide for
Surviving the Horror Movie We Collectively Inhabit
"Julian Murphet's penetrating intelligence meets its match in Todd
Solondz' depthless abjection; surprisingly and superbly, it is a
match made in heaven. Or perhaps in hell, the hell of the present
that we must trust our most intrepid thinkers to explore, to
challenge, and to discover within it not salvation but a livable
world glowing with the possibility that we can survive it and enter
the next world alive."--Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike.
Riot: The New Era of Uprisings
"Julian Murphet's Todd Solondz (published by the University
of Illinois Press) makes me willing to at least give the director
another look. Murphet defines the filmmaker as a satirist; Solondz
isn't just trying to be disgusting but composes his bleak humor as
a critique of a disgusting society." --Shepherd Express
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