Prager, Dr Brad

The Deer Hunter (BFI Film Classics)

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ISBN 13:: 9781839025419
author:: Prager, Dr Brad
format:: Paperback
publisher:: British Film Institute
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2023
Pages:: 120
Dimensions:: 18 x 13.7 x 1.3 centimetres (0.4
Genre:: History, Military History, Vietnam War,
Condition:: New
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Brad Prager's study of Michael Cimino's 1978 film explores its significance as a war movie and examines how it presents itself as cinematic realism while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, Prager analyzes the film's formal elements, including lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras, and shifting depths of field. Prager argues that The Deer Hunter's formal elements were used to bolster its troubling depictions of war and race, particularly in relation to anti-Asian violence. By comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention, such as Albert and Allen Hughes's Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee's Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter's major presumptions, blind spots, and omissions. This book offers a nuanced analysis of The Deer Hunter's critical reception and its enduring impact on the war movie genre.

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