{"product_id":"steve-mcqueen-2","title":"Steve McQueen","description":"\u003ci\u003eSteve McQueen: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen’s discussions with artists, critics, curators, and public intellectuals such as Donna De Salvo, Paul Gilroy, David Olusoga, Tricky, and Cornel West. In these conversations, McQueen (b. 1969) discusses some of his preoccupations and recurring themes throughout his oeuvre including nationalism, martyrdom, and violence; obsession and desire; and the intertwined histories of racism, surveillance, and carceral politics. Most interestingly, he also discusses his love for his fellow artists, past and present, including Miles Davis, Jean-Luc Godard, Prince, Yvonne Rainer, Paul Robeson, Jean Vigo, and Andy Warhol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcQueen is one of the most celebrated British filmmakers of his generation, an artist as committed to avant-garde film and lyric forms of documentary as he is to producing landmark historical dramas. A deeply humane artist with a clear ethical drive, McQueen nevertheless explores the sublime sense of scale that cinema affords its viewers in his films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While he remains best known for his feature film \u003ci\u003e12 Years a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e—winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture—McQueen has been a fixture of major contemporary museum and gallery exhibitions for decades, beginning with the short experimental works that garnered him the prestigious Turner Prize in 1999. His acclaimed installations include the diptychs \u003ci\u003eCaribs’ Leap\/Western Deep \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGravesend\/Unexploded\u003c\/i\u003e, works that interrogate film form as they challenge documentary norms, not unlike his recent four-and-half-hour epic \u003ci\u003eOccupied City\u003c\/i\u003e that investigates the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55275255202136,"sku":"9781496858825","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781496858825.jpg?v=1780115469","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/steve-mcqueen-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}