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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: William Friedkin, New Hollywood, and 'Auteurial' Filmmaking
Chapter 2: Sorcerer - The Film's Production History and the 'Politics' of Hollywood System
Chapter 3: Sorcerer - From Source Novel to Friedkin's 'Reimaging' of H. G. Clouzot's La Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) - Fate and Entrapment
Chapter 4: Sorcerer - Sub-Textual Disorder, Global Economics, Geo-Politics and Magical Realism
Chapter 5: A Commercial and Critical Failure - The Impact on William Friedkin and New Hollywood
Chapter 6: The Resurrection of Sorcerer - From a Lost Film to a Masterpiece
