Sorcerer - William Friedkin and the New Hollywood

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Wheeler is professor of Political Communications at London Metropolitan University.

Zusammenfassung

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

• Autoren: Mark Wheeler
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781498596121
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9612-1
• Seiten: 192
• Serien: Politics, Literature, & Film; POLITICS LITERATURE FILM
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, ART / Film & Video, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts