An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as "one of American film's modern masters" and "the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation." Anderson's �lms have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time, including Lesley Ann Manville, Julianne Moore, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, Anderson's entire career-from Boogie Nights (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), and The Phantom Thread (2017) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short �lms-is examined in illustrated detail for the �rst time. Anderson's influences, his style, and the recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by �rsthand interviews with Anderson's closest collaborators-including producer JoAnne Sellar and composer Jonny Greenwood-and illuminated by �lm stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic. Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world. Adam Nayman is the author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together and is a contributing editor to Cinema Scope. Little White Lies is one of the world's preeminent? lm magazines, pairing a unique editorial angle with beautiful illustration and world-class design

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