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The Deer Hunter

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By (author): Dr Brad Prager

Michael Ciminos 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 films 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 Hunters 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 Hughess Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lees Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunters major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781839025419

About Dr Brad Prager

Brad Prager is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents Aesthetics Memory (2008) as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema and is the editor of the Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

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