Mark Wheeler

Sorcerer

William Friedkin and the New Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

William Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) has emerged in the popular and scholarly consciousness from enjoying a minor, cult status to becoming subject to a full-blown critical reconsideration in which it has been praised a major work by a key American filmmaker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781498596121
• ISBN-10: 1498596126
• Artikelnr.: 62760740

Autorenporträt

Mark Wheeler is Professor of Political Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is author of Politics and the Mass Media (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: William Friedkin, New Hollywood, and 'Auteurial' Filmmaking
Chapter 2: Sorcerer - The Film's Production History and the 'Politics' of
Hollywood System
Chapter 3: Sorcerer - From Source Novel to Friedkin's 'Reimaging' of H. G.
Clouzot's La Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) - Fate and
Entrapment
Chapter 4: Sorcerer - Sub-Textual Disorder, Global Economics, Geo-Politics
and Magical Realism
Chapter 5: A Commercial and Critical Failure - The Impact on William
Friedkin and New Hollywood
Chapter 6: The Resurrection of Sorcerer - From a Lost Film to a Masterpiece