Cruising

(livre en anglais)

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de Eugenio Ercolani et Marcus Stiglegger

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Un Film > Cruising - La Chasse

Mots Clés

William Friedkin

Année d'édition

2020

Editeur

Liverpool University Press

Collection

Devil's Advocates

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Relié • 96 pages
14 x 19 cm

ISBN

978-1-80034-836-3

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Description de l'ouvrage :
In the fading atmosphere of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin - the wunderkind director with an Academy Award for his cop drama, The French Connection (1971) who then scored an even bigger success with The Exorcist (1973) - began work on what would prove to be the most controversial film of his career: Cruising (1980). In the process he established a template for a sub-genre, the serial killer thriller, that would thrive long after his film had left theatres, having caused widespread offence among the very audience he'd hoped to appeal to, via a campaign mobilised by the counter-culture press. As such, Cruising can be read as a bitter farewell to the seventies and its cinema and industry. This Devil's Advocate dives deep into the phenomenon that is Cruising, examining its creative context and its protagonists, as well as examining its ongoing popularity as it turns 40 in 2020.

À propos des auteurs :
Eugenio Ercolani is an Italian film scholar who has recently finished two volumes on Italian genre cinema for McFarland Press. Marcus Stiglegger currently works at the Department of film, DEKRA Hochschule Berlin and has published a number of books and many articles on film aesthetics, film history and film theory.

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