{"product_id":"the-deer-hunter-9781839025419","title":"The Deer Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Cimino's \u003ci\u003eThe Deer Hunter \u003c\/i\u003ewas met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brad Prager's study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film's lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that \u003ci\u003eThe Deer Hunter's\u003c\/i\u003e formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes's \u003ci\u003eDead Presidents \u003c\/i\u003e(1995) and Spike Lee's \u003ci\u003eDa Five Bloods\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), Prager illuminates \u003ci\u003eThe Deer Hunter's\u003c\/i\u003e major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15804854\"\u003eBrad Prager\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Film Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839025419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839025417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004020\"\u003eFilm | Guides \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS027070\"\u003eWars \u0026amp; Conflicts | Vietnam War\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Prager\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled \u003ci\u003eVisualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Werner Herzog\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44499588940013,"sku":"9781839025419","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b62d4b5f-feb1-4afc-841d-a809d09b87ae.jpg?v=1700980428","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/the-deer-hunter-9781839025419","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}