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Late Style in Film

Late Style in Film

Brinkmann, Collin
McBride, Joseph

Paperback

Film & Video ArtFilm Studies

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN13: 9798899760747
Publisher: Sticking Place Books
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In an era obsessed with youth, novelty, and the myth of artistic decline, Late Style in Film offers a bold and illuminating reappraisal of what filmmakers achieve at the end of their careers. Taking as its starting point the contemporary fascination with late works by major directors - from octogenarian auteurs to veterans working against an ever-changing industry - this book argues that late films are not marginal curiosities or diminished afterthoughts, but some of the most revealing, personal, and formally adventurous works in cinema history. Drawing on film history, aesthetics, and broader traditions of late-style thought in music, literature, and art, Collin Brinkmann shows how late films often exist in a productive tension with their moment: at once out of step with prevailing trends and deeply shaped by the long artistic journeys that produced them. The result is a body of work frequently dismissed as out of touch but better understood as singular, idiosyncratic, and radically free.

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