The Specter of Disillusionment:A Psychoanalytic and Ideological Analysis of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Introduction: The Cinematic Apparatus and the Architecture of CrisisIn...
The surface level Official materials describe the film as centering on Bob, a “washed-up revolutionary” living off-grid in “stoned paranoia” with his daughter Willa; when an “evil nemesis” resurfaces ...
Introduction: The Incongruity of the Auteur and the Allegory The announcement that Nicholas Stoller—a filmmaker synonymous with the raunchy, vulnerable, male-centric comedies of the Apatow school—woul...