Sorcerer
William Friedkin and the New Hollywood
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9612-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9612-1 (ISBN)
William Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) 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.
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.
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.
Mark Wheeler is professor of Political Communications at London Metropolitan University.
Chapter 1: William Friedkin, New Hollywood, and ‘Auteurial’ Filmmaking
Chapter 2: Sorcerer – The Film’s Production History and the ‘Politics’ of Hollywood System
Chapter 3: Sorcerer – From Source Novel to Friedkin’s ‘Reimaging’ of H. G. Clouzot’s La Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) – Fate and Entrapment
Chapter 4: Sorcerer – Sub-Textual Disorder, Global Economics, Geo-Politics and Magical Realism
Chapter 5: A Commercial and Critical Failure – The Impact on William Friedkin and New Hollywood
Chapter 6: The Resurrection of Sorcerer – From a Lost Film to a Masterpiece
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Politics, Literature, & Film |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 227 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9612-6 / 1498596126 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9612-1 / 9781498596121 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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