Sorcerer : William Friedkin and the New Hollywood Hardback
by MARK WHEELER
Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
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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.
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:22/01/2022
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:22/01/2022
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- ISBN:9781498596121