EAN: 9781839025419

THE DEER HUNTER - BRAD PRAGER KARTONIERT (TB)

Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was 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. 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 The Deer Hunter's formal
elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race. Finally  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  while also presenting a case for its classic
status.

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