系列：重新聚焦：美国导演系列
威廉·弗里德金（William Friedkin）是电影类型定义作品的导演，如《法国连接》（1971）和《驱魔者》（1973），有争议的作品如《巡游》（1980）和《杀手乔》（2011），以及未经研究的电影，包括《生日派对》（1968）、《巫师》（1977）和《猎杀》（2003）。这本书是对弗里德金电影的首次学术研究，揭示了他们如何面对法律和道德的模糊性、主观性问题和信仰问题，同时提出了电影中情感和叙事的关键问题。
将他的作品放在越南战争和尼克松总统任期的历史背景中，重新聚焦：威廉·弗里德金的电影还审视了导演在电影制作准则废除后，以及在好莱坞新电影兴衰的背景下对性和暴力的表现。
ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin
Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series
William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), controversial productions like Cruising (1980) and Killer Joe (2011), as well as understudied films including The Birthday Party (1968), Sorcerer (1977) and The Hunted (2003). This book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin’s films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.
Placing his work in the historical contexts of the Vietnam War and Nixon’s presidency, ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin also examines the director’s representations of sex and violence after the dismantling of the Production Code and in light of the rise and fall of New Hollywood cinema.
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