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Point Blank
Engelsk Paperback

Point Blank

Engelsk Paperback

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John Boorman''s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000).

Eric Wilson''s compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of ''point blank''. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness.

He goes on to reimagine the film''s experimental style as a representation of and possible remedy for trauma. Examining Boorman’s formal innovations, including his favouring of gesture over language and blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, he also positions the film as a grimly comical exploration of toxic masculinity and gender fluidity.

Wilson''s close reading of Point Blank reveals it to be a film that innovatively inflects its own generation and speaks powerfully to our own, arguing that it is this amplitude, which encompasses the many major films it has influenced, that qualifies the film as a classic.





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
112
ISBN-13:
9781839025761
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
183902576X
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2023
Længde:
7mm
Bredde:
136mm
Højde:
190mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2023
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