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Author:   Francis Mickus ,  Kyle Barrett ,  Soumyarup Bhattacharjee ,  Julia Brown
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN:  

9781666939569

ISBN 10:   1666939560
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   15 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: David Fincher, the Master of Offset, Francis Mickus Section I: The Art of Making Movies Chapter 1: Film of Fury: David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992) and the Scarring of a Franchise, Kyle Barrett Chapter 2: Fincherdgaf: David Fincher, Star Image, and Fan Appreciation, Kirsty Worrow Chapter 3: David Fincher as an Auteur: Pop Music Intertextuality and Film, Carlos Gerald Pranger and Cintia Gutiérrez Reyes Chapter 4: Up Close and Personal: Details and Fragments in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Isabelle Labrouillère Section II: A Darkness More Than Night… Chapter 5: The Continuum of Evil in David Fincher’s Exteriors and Interiors, Antonio Pettierre and Antonio Sanna Chapter 6: To Reign in Hell: David Fincher’s Enclosed Worlds of Transgression, Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh Chapter 7: Gothic Fincher: Alienation, Abjection, and the American Nightmare,Soumyarup Bhattacharjee Chapter 8: Spectacle, Noir, and the Obsession with the Horrific Other in David Fincher’s Zodiac, Joshua Fagan Section III: The Meaning of Responsibility Chapter 9: ‘Upset the Order’: Disrupting Law in Music Videos, Alien3and The Game, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Chapter 10: Who Watches the Watchmen: David Fincher’s Serial Killer Narratives, Min-Chi Chen Chapter 11:‘You’re Not Even Trying’: The Practice of Persuasion and Influence in Fincher’s Filmography, Francis Mickus Chapter 12: Paying Attention: Care Ethics and the Cost of Chronic Illness in Panic Room,Julia Brown Chapter 13: The Guilty Game: The Peculiar Darkness of David Fincher’s World, Roberto Donati

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A Critical Companion to David Fincher captures all the ways in which Fincher’s work is interesting and important. Among the book’s many strengths, it shows us a variety of methodologies at their best, from art history through fan studies, production histories, genre analysis and up-close textual readings. Showcasing the innovative work of young scholars, this volume maps the full range of Fincher studies and moves the field forward in exciting ways. -- William Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University A Critical Companion to David Fincher, edited by Francis Mickus, offers a fascinating perspective on the work of one of the most emblematic filmmakers of our time. The multi-disciplinary approaches to the filmmaker's visual aesthetics, his cinematic sources of inspiration, his relationship to genre cinema and technology, his philosophical and moral stance on the representation of evil and violence... provide a comprehensive overview of how David Fincher's cinema questions the nature of cinema in its relationship to reality. -- Yann Calvet, Université de Caen Normandie

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Francis Mickus is a doctoral candidate in history at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

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