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The Silence of the Lambs
Taschenbuch von Yvonne Tasker
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating 'Buffalo Bill', a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer and former psychiatrist who assists Starling in exchange for personal details.

With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, proto-action heroine, The Silence of the Lambs unfolds as a layered narrative of pursuit. In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the film's weaving together of gothic, horror and thriller elements in its portrayal of insanity and crime, drawing out the centrality of ideas about gender to the storytelling. She identifies the film as a key genre reference point for tracking late twentieth century interests in police procedural, profiling and serial murder, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation.

A new afterword explores the legacies of The Silence of the Lambs and its figuring of crime and investigation in terms of gender disruption and spectacular violence.
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating 'Buffalo Bill', a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer and former psychiatrist who assists Starling in exchange for personal details.

With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, proto-action heroine, The Silence of the Lambs unfolds as a layered narrative of pursuit. In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the film's weaving together of gothic, horror and thriller elements in its portrayal of insanity and crime, drawing out the centrality of ideas about gender to the storytelling. She identifies the film as a key genre reference point for tracking late twentieth century interests in police procedural, profiling and serial murder, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation.

A new afterword explores the legacies of The Silence of the Lambs and its figuring of crime and investigation in terms of gender disruption and spectacular violence.
Über den Autor
Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She has written extensively on gender in popular cinema and television. Her most recent publications are Action Cinema Since 2000, co-edited with Chris Holmlund and Lisa Purse (BFI, 2024) and Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Postwar Britain, co-authored with Sadie Wearing (2025).
Zusammenfassung
Published to tie in with BFI Horror season
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication
Acknowledgments
1. Birds, Lambs and Butterflies
2. The Sum and the Parts: Horror, Crime and the Woman's Picture
3. Detection and Deduction
4. The Female Gothic
5. Under the Skin
6. Afterword to the 2021 Edition
Credits

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: BFI Film Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781839023675
ISBN-10: 1839023678
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 534747
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tasker, Yvonne
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
British Film Institute
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 190 x 137 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Yvonne Tasker
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,157 kg
Artikel-ID: 119670052
Über den Autor
Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She has written extensively on gender in popular cinema and television. Her most recent publications are Action Cinema Since 2000, co-edited with Chris Holmlund and Lisa Purse (BFI, 2024) and Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Postwar Britain, co-authored with Sadie Wearing (2025).
Zusammenfassung
Published to tie in with BFI Horror season
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication
Acknowledgments
1. Birds, Lambs and Butterflies
2. The Sum and the Parts: Horror, Crime and the Woman's Picture
3. Detection and Deduction
4. The Female Gothic
5. Under the Skin
6. Afterword to the 2021 Edition
Credits

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: BFI Film Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781839023675
ISBN-10: 1839023678
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 534747
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tasker, Yvonne
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
British Film Institute
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 190 x 137 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Yvonne Tasker
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,157 kg
Artikel-ID: 119670052
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