Sorcerer

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.

Autorentext
Mark Wheeler is professor of Political Communications at London Metropolitan University.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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

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