Sorcerer (eBook)

William Friedkin and the New Hollywood

Mark Wheeler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
192 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9613-8 (ISBN)

Infos

William Friedkin's film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G. Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) (based on George Arnaud's novel); the film was a major critical and commercial failure on its initial release. Friedkin's work was castigated as an example of directorial hubris as it was a notoriously difficult production which went wildly over-budget. It was viewed at the time as th end of New Hollywood. However, within recent years, the film 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: action adventure • film industry • Location filmmaking • New Hollywood • Political Ideologies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-9613-4 / 1498596134
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9613-8 / 9781498596138