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This book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.

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"This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity.? It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. ?Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century." -Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro

Refocus the Films of William Friedkin

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 31/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9781474431385, 978-1474431385
      ISBN10: 1474431380
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.

      Trade Review
      "This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity.? It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. ?Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century." -Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro

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