Sorcerer: William Friedkin and the New Hollywood

by Mark Wheeler

William Friedkin's film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G. Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) (based on George Arnaud's novel); the film was a major critical and commercial failure on its initial release. Friedkin's work was castigated as an example of directorial hubris as it was a notoriously difficult production which went wildly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498596126
• ISBN13: 9781498596121
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"