David Fincher's Zodiac

Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation

Matthew Sorrento, David Ryan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2022
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-326-7 (ISBN)

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David Fincher's Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.

David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century. As the second film featuring a serial killer (and the first based on fact) by Fincher, Zodiac remains a standout in a varied but stylistically unified career. While connected to this genre, the film also hybridizes the policier genre and the investigative reporter film. And yet, scholarship has largely ignored the film.
This collection is the first book-length work of criticism dedicated to the film. Section One focuses on early influences, while the second section analyzes the film’s unique treatment of narrative. The book closes with a section focusing on game theory, data and hegemony, the Zodiac’s treatment in music, and the use of sound in cinema. By offering new avenues and continuing a few established ones, this book will interest scholars of cinema and true crime along with fans and enthusiasts in these areas.

Matthew Sorrento teaches film studies at Rutgers University-Camden. David Ryan is academic director and faculty chair of the Master of Arts of Professional Communication program at the University of San Francisco.

Foreword: Zodiac, the American Murderer, and the End of Reason
By Christopher Sharrett
Introduction: The Future of the “Last Serial Killer Movie”
By Matthew Sorrento
SECTION ONE: BEFORE FINCHER
1: Framing the “Mass” Killer: Horror and Spatiality in Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968)
By Matthew Sorrento
2: Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television
By Christopher Weedman
3: Hacked to Pisces: An Interview with Tom Hanson on The Zodiac Killer (1971)
By Rod Lott
SECTION TWO: ZODIAC AND NARRATIVE
4: Zodiac and the Melding Criminal Minds of David Fincher
By Jeremy Carr
5: Subverting the Investigator as Hero: Masculinity and Failure in David Fincher’s Zodiac
By Theresa Rodewald
6: Performing the Zodiac: Piffle, Paradox, and Self-Promotion
By Daniel R. Fredrick
7: Allegories of Obsession: David Fincher’s Zodiac and Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934)
By George Toles
SECTION THREE: ZODIAC AND MEDIA
8: The Dantesque Desires

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Co-Autor	Jeremy Carr, Daniel R. Fredrick
Vorwort	Christopher Sharrett
Zusatzinfo	12 b/w photos;
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68393-326-5 / 1683933265
ISBN-13	978-1-68393-326-7 / 9781683933267
Zustand	Neuware