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Sorcerer
William Friedkin and the New Hollywood
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2022
Summary
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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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9612-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9613-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
183
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1 William Friedkin, New Hollywood, and ‘Auteurial’ Filmmaking No access Pages 7 - 34
2 Sorcerer – The Film’s Production History and the ‘Politics’ of the Hollywood System No access Pages 35 - 62
3 Sorcerer – From Source Novel to Friedkin’s ‘Reimagining’ of H. G. Clouzot’s La Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) No access Pages 63 - 88
4 Sorcerer – Sub-Textual Disorder, Global Economics, Geopolitics and Magical Realism No access Pages 89 - 112
5 A Commercial and Critical Failure No access Pages 113 - 140
6 The Resurrection of Sorcerer No access Pages 141 - 164
