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"...Gallagher challenges the very methods and ways by which we write, discuss, and think about cinema. In holding Soderbergh up as the preeminent figure for this type of study from contemporary Hollywood, he's also sacrificing the director's auteur status...these efforts also thrillingly problematize that relationship between author and subject, made all the more exhilarating by an interview between the two as the book's coda, which is the most compelling interview (online or print) I've read in 2013."-Clayton Dillard, Slate.com

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Mark Gallagher is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the Department of Culture, Film, and Media at the University of Nottingham and the author of Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives. He is also coeditor of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies.

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