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Sorcerer : William Friedkin and the new Hollywood
Title
Sorcerer : William Friedkin and the new Hollywood / Mark Wheeler.
ISBN
9781498596121
1498596126
9781498596138
1498596134
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Physical Description
vii, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Wheeler, Mark, 1965- Sorcerer Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2022
Series
Politics, literature, and film
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
William Friedkin, new Hollywood, and 'auteurial' filmmaking
Sorcerer : the film's production history and the 'politics' of Hollywood system
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
Sorcerer : sub-textual disorder, global economics, geo-politics and magical realism
A commercial and critical failure : the impact on William Friedkin and new Hollywood
The resurrection of Sorcerer : from a lost film to a masterpiece.
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