Todd Haynes
Subtitle: interviews
By: edited by Julia Leyda
Contributors: Leyda, Julia, editor
Series: Conversations with filmmakers series; Conversations with filmmakers series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781617039836
Subjects: Interviews; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards and nominations and an expanding fan base for his provocative and engaging work. In all his films, Haynes works to portray the struggles of characters in conflict with the norms of society. Many of his movies focus on female characters, drawing inspiration from genres such as the woman's film and the disease movie (Far from Heaven and Safe); others explore male characters who transgress sexual and other social conventions (Poison and Velvet Goldmine). The writer-director has drawn on figures such as Karen Carpenter, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Bob Dylan in his meditations on American and British music, celebrity, and the meaning of identity. His 2007 movie I'm Not There won a number of awards and was notable for Haynes's decision to cast six different actors (one of whom was a woman) to portray Dylan. Gathering interviews from 1989 through 2012, this collection presents a range of themes, films, and moments in the burgeoning career of Todd Haynes. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Karen Carpenter: getting to the bare bones of Todd Haynes's superstar: the Karen Carpenter story / Sheryl Farber (1989); title: Todd Haynes: the intellectual from Encino / Jeffrey Lantos (1991); title: Poison at the box office / Michael Laskawy (1991); title: Cinematic/sexual: an interview with Todd Haynes / Justin Wyatt (1992); title: Appendix: an interview withTodd Haynes / Michael William Saunders (1995); title: Diary of a sad housewife: Collier Schorr talks with Todd Haynes / Collier Schorr (1995); title: Todd Haynes / Alison Maclean (1995); title: Antibodies: Larry Gross talks with Safe's Todd Haynes / Larry Gross (1995); title: Briefs, Barbies, and beyond / Blase Distefano (1995); title: All that glitters: Todd Haynes mines the glam rock epoch / Amy Taubin (1997); title: Todd Haynes (interview) / Nick James (1998); title: Flaming creatures / John C. Mitchell (1998); title: Interview with Todd Haynes / Keith Phipps (1998); title: Fanning the flames / Amy Taubin (1998); title: Heaven sent / Dennis Lim (2002); title: Imitation of film: Todd Haynes mimics melodrama in Far from heaven / Anthony Kaufman (2002); title: Past perfect / Geoffrey O'Brien (2002); title: A scandal in Suburbia / Jon Silberg (2002); title: The many faces of Bob Dylan: an interview with Todd Haynes / Richard Porton (2007); title: Conversations: Todd Haynes / Stephanie Zacharek (2007); title: Todd Haynes / Noel Murray (2007); title: It ain't me babe / Matt Prigge (2007); title: From underground to multiplex: an interview with Todd Haynes / Scott MacDonald (2008); title: Interview with Todd Haynes / Sam Adams (2011); title: HBO: Mildred Pierce: the evening class interview with Todd Haynes / Michael Guilen (2011); title: Daughter dearest / Amy Taubin ( 2011); title: Todd haynes on Mildred Pierce: too racy for indies, but perfect for tv / Eric Kohn (2011); title: "Something that is dangerous and arousing and transgressive?: an interview with Todd Haynes / Julia Leyda ( 2012).