{"product_id":"david-finchers-zodiac-cinema-of-investigation-and-mis-interpretation-9781683933281","title":"David Fincher's Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century. As the second film featuring a serial killer (and the first based on fact) by Fincher, Zodiac remains a standout in a varied but stylistically unified career. While connected to this genre, the film also hybridizes the policier genre and the investigative reporter film. And yet, scholarship has largely ignored the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is the first book-length work of criticism dedicated to the film. Section One focuses on early influences, while the second section analyzes the film’s unique treatment of narrative. The book closes with a section focusing on game theory, data and hegemony, the Zodiac’s treatment in music, and the use of sound in cinema. By offering new avenues and continuing a few established ones, this book will interest scholars of cinema and true crime along with fans and enthusiasts in these areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important study in regards to David Fincher, Zodiac, and the true crime story upon which it is based. The collection exposes and examines the topics, and our fascination with them, in surprising ways.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of \u003ci\u003e1000 Women in Horror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Giallo Canvas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough arguably the most interesting serial-killer film since Hitchcock's Psycho, David Fincher's Zodiac has not yet received as much high-level critical analysis as it deserves. This exciting new anthology goes a long way toward remedying the deficiency. Written from a variety of perspectives and with a wide range of concerns, this volume is especially strong in helping us to understand the film in its various cultural and historical contexts and with regard to its complex narrative strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Carl Freedman, Willam A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University and author of \u003ci\u003eVersions of Crime Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Presidents and Oliver Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Zodiac, the American Murderer, and the End of Reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Christopher Sharrett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Future of the “Last Serial Killer Movie”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Matthew Sorrento\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION ONE: BEFORE FINCHER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1: Framing the “Mass” Killer: Horror and Spatiality in Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Matthew Sorrento\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2: Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Christopher Weedman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3: Hacked to Pisces: An Interview with Tom Hanson on The Zodiac Killer (1971)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Rod Lott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION TWO: ZODIAC AND NARRATIVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4: Zodiac and the Melding Criminal Minds of David Fincher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Jeremy Carr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5: Subverting the Investigator as Hero: Masculinity and Failure in David Fincher’s Zodiac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Theresa Rodewald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6: Performing the Zodiac: Piffle, Paradox, and Self-Promotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Daniel R. Fredrick \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7: Allegories of Obsession: David Fincher’s Zodiac and Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy George Toles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION THREE: ZODIAC AND MEDIA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8: The Dantesque Desires of David Fincher’s Zodiac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Martin Kevorkian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9: The Zodiac Strikes a Blue Chord: Evoking Art-Horror in Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Andrew M. Winters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10: Algorithmic Anxiety: Data Hegemony and Mediated Murder in David Fincher’s Zodiac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Jake Rutkowski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11: Gaming the Ripper Coast: Mapping the Radicalized Acts of the Zodiac Killer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy David Ryan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12: The Killers Speak: the Sound of Violence in David Fincher’s Zodiac and Mindhunter (2017-2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Deborah L. 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