The cinema of Steven Soderbergh

The industry´s only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood´s most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d´or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective´s approach to investigating the truth with a criminal´s alternative value system, Soderbergh´s films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.