Brad Prager

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The Deer HunterPaperback, 7 September 2023

The Deer Hunter
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Part of Series
BFI Film Classics
Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
Publisher
British Film Institute
Date Published
7 Sep 2023
ISBN-10
1839025417
ISBN-13
9781839025419

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.

Product Details

Author:
Brad Prager
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 September 2023
Dimensions:
19 x 13.51 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
Southeast Asian
ISBN-10:
1839025417
ISBN-13:
9781839025419
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
120
Weight:
453.59 gm

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