Sorcerer

William Friedkin and the New Hollywood

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de Mark Wheeler

Type

Studies

Sujet

One Film > Sorcerer

Mots Clés

William Friedkin, New Hollywood, 1970s

Année d'édition

2022

Editeur

Lexington Books

Collection

Politics, Literature, & Film

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 192 pages
6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches (16 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4985-9612-1

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Mark Wheeler is professor of Political Communications at London Metropolitan University.

Revue de Presse:
A deep dive into the career of a tenacious and influential filmmaker, and a multidimensional history and critical appreciation of his overlooked masterpiece, Sorcerer (1977). Wheeler contextualizes the ups and downs of the director’s career, illustrating these with insight into the films’ inspiration, production, and reception. A must for Friedkin fans and scholars, and especially for admirers of his grim and thrilling jungle quest, which is now finally attracting the attention it deserves.
-- Dominic Lennard, University of Tasmania

Best known for The French Connection and The Exorcist, William Freidkin capped his very successful 1970's trilogy with a third overlooked film. In this fascinating and well-researched new book, Mark Wheeler sheds light on this important film in the oeuvre of a major Hollywood filmmaker.

-- Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University, Wales and author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema

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