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Brad Prager The Deer Hunter (Paperback) BFI Film Classics. Brad Prager's study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Publisher: BFI Publishing. Author: Brad Prager. Series: BFI Film Classics. Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes’sDead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee’sDa Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminatesThe Deer Hunter’s major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status. Further DetailsTitle: The Deer Hunter Condition: New Author: Brad Prager Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1839025417 EAN: 9781839025419 ISBN: 9781839025419 Publisher: BFI Publishing Genre: Films & TV Release Date: 09/07/2023 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 190mm Item Length: 135mm Item Width: 8mm Item Weight: 200g Series: BFI Film Classics Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
