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Article: Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy. (Book Notes).(Review)
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- American Studies International
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Robert Brent Toplin, ed. Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 335 pp., $34.95 (cloth).
Although his two most recent films--U Turn (1997) and Any Given Sunday (1999)-have attracted relatively little attention, Oliver Stone was for nearly a decade one of the most celebrated, if not also one of the most reviled, filmmakers in the U.S. In contrast to many Hollywood producers and directors, who tend to avoid topics with serious political content, Stone has consistently challenged audiences to confront seriously such issues as violence, war, corruption, and morality. Even if he hasn't always succeeded, Stone ...
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Article: Oliver Stone, still angry after all these years
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October 13, 1997 ;
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... ... You know what to expect from an Oliver Stone film: Sixties ideology, grand ... The man doing the talking is Oliver Stone. He pauses, looks up from the ... get on with the business of being Oliver Stone. At the university I spied stacks ...
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