The Films of William Friedkin

(livre en anglais)

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de Steve Choe

Type

Critiques de films

Sujet

Réalisateur > William Friedkin

Mots Clés

William Friedkin

Année d'édition

2023

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

ReFocus: The American Directors Series

1ere édition

2021

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 224 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-4744-3138-5

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Description de l'ouvrage :
William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), controversial productions like Cruising (1980) and Killer Joe (2011), as well as understudied films including The Birthday Party (1968), Sorcerer (1977) and The Hunted (2003). This book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin’s films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.
Placing his work in the historical contexts of the Vietnam War and Nixon’s presidency, ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin also examines the director’s representations of sex and violence after the dismantling of the Production Code and in light of the rise and fall of New Hollywood cinema.

À propos de l'auteur :
Dr Steve Choe is Associate Professor of Film Studies at San Francisco State University

Revue de Presse :
This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity. It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century. ― Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro

This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity. It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century. -- Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro

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