Sorcerer

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

• Chapter 1: William Friedkin, New Hollywood, and ‘Auteurial’ FilmmakingChapter 2: Sorcerer – The Film’s Production History and the ‘Politics’ of Hollywood SystemChapter 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 EntrapmentChapter 4: Sorcerer – Sub-Textual Disorder, Global Economics, Geo-Politics and Magical RealismChapter 5: A Commercial and Critical Failure – The Impact on William Friedkin and New HollywoodChapter 6: The Resurrection of Sorcerer – From a Lost Film to a Masterpiece

A deep dive into the career of a tenacious and influential filmmaker, and a multidimensional history and critical appreciation of his overlooked masterpiece, Sorcerer (1977). Wheeler contextualizes the ups and downs of the director’s career, illustrating these with insight into the films’ inspiration, production, and reception. A must for Friedkin fans and scholars, and especially for admirers of his grim and thrilling jungle quest, which is now finally attracting the attention it deserves.