Description: This book provides the most complete account of Paul Thomas Anderson's career to date, encompassing his evolution from a self-anointed auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices. It is at once an unconventional primer on Anderson's films and a provocative reframing of what makes his work so essential.
Review Quotes: [Warren] brings his cinephilic eloquence to bear upon unknotting the enigmatic plots of, or characters in, Anderson's films as well as Anderson's ethos. To be sure, this is not a film theory text. Rather, Warren's biography holds this boy genius (or brat) up to the light like a prism and slowly allows every refraction of Anderson to shine.--Hannah Bonner "Senses of Cinema"