Critical Companion to David Fincher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze David Fincher’s development as a filmmaker, from television commercials and music videos to serving as front runner on the series Mindhunter. The contributors explore a variety of characteristics, including Fincher’s attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer. The diversity of approaches highlights the paradoxes of Fincher’s films and style, accentuating the tensions between his innovative methods and storytelling and unpacking the perennial questions of love, life, and death that his films raise. Scholars of film, television, and media will find this book especially salient.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-05
Mått161 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666939569

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Introduction: David Fincher, the Master of Offset, Francis MickusSection I: The Art of Making MoviesChapter 1: Film of Fury: David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992) and the Scarring of a Franchise, Kyle BarrettChapter 2: Fincherdgaf: David Fincher, Star Image, and Fan Appreciation, Kirsty WorrowChapter 3: David Fincher as an Auteur: Pop Music Intertextuality and Film, Carlos Gerald Pranger and Cintia Gutiérrez ReyesChapter 4: Up Close and Personal: Details and Fragments in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Isabelle LabrouillèreSection II: A Darkness More Than Night…Chapter 5: The Continuum of Evil in David Fincher’s Exteriors and Interiors, Antonio Pettierre and Antonio SannaChapter 6: To Reign in Hell: David Fincher’s Enclosed Worlds of Transgression, Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. SureshChapter 7: Gothic Fincher: Alienation, Abjection, and the American Nightmare,Soumyarup BhattacharjeeChapter 8: Spectacle, Noir, and the Obsession with the Horrific Other in David Fincher’s Zodiac, Joshua FaganSection III: The Meaning of ResponsibilityChapter 9: ‘Upset the Order’: Disrupting Law in Music Videos, Alien3and The Game, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsChapter 10: Who Watches the Watchmen: David Fincher’s Serial Killer Narratives, Min-Chi ChenChapter 11:‘You’re Not Even Trying’: The Practice of Persuasion and Influence in Fincher’s Filmography, Francis MickusChapter 12: Paying Attention: Care Ethics and the Cost of Chronic Illness in Panic Room,Julia BrownChapter 13: The Guilty Game: The Peculiar Darkness of David Fincher’s World, Roberto Donati

A Critical Companion to David Fincher captures all the ways in which Fincher’s work is interesting and important. Among the book’s many strengths, it shows us a variety of methodologies at their best, from art history through fan studies, production histories, genre analysis and up-close textual readings. Showcasing the innovative work of young scholars, this volume maps the full range of Fincher studies and moves the field forward in exciting ways.