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The Deer Hunter: BFI Film Classics

Autor Dr Brad Prager
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2023
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. Brad Prager's study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film's lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that The Deer Hunter's formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race.Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes's Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee's Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter's major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781839025419
ISBN-10: 1839025417
Pagini: 120
Ilustrații: 60 colour illus
Dimensiuni: 135 x 190 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria BFI Film Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The Deer Hunter is a key film in the American canon. It won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and was nominated across several other categories. This is the first single study of the film in its cinematic and historical contexts

Notă biografică

Brad Prager is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of the Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Realism and Truth2. Mountains and Fog3. "There's Rats in Here"4. Coming Home 5. "God Bless America"ConclusionNotesCreditsBibliography