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The Silence of the Lambs

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Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of recent American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by Jonathan Demme, its central characters, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, have become contemporary icons. Jodie Foster is Starling, a rookie FBI agent on the trail of "Buffalo Bill," a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins is Lecter, the psychopathic former psychiatrist whom Starling consults about Bill's identity.

With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, self-searching heroine, The Silence of the Lambs is a narrative of pursuit at several levels. In this study Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre. She identifies the film as a key reference-point for tracking the '90s obsession with police procedure and serial killing, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation.

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"Erudite, concise, exhaustively researched and thoroughly illuminating, I read it in one sitting and was imediately covercome by a compulsion to view the film again." kamera.co.uk

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"Tasker has produced an admirable work, one that displays rigor of argument without the bane of cumbersome jargon." Medienwissenschaft

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In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre.
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About the Author

Yvonne Tasker is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998) and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1983).
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ISBN:
9780851708713
Author:
Tasker, Yvonne
Publisher:
British Film Institute
Location:
London
Subject:
Film - General
Subject:
Silence of the lambs
Subject:
Film & Video - General
Subject:
Film - Reference
Subject:
Film - Guides & Reviews
Subject:
General Performing Arts
Subject:
Film
Subject:
Video - Reference
Subject:
Video, History
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Film and Television-Reference
Subject:
Film & Video - History & Criticism
Subject:
Film & Video - Reference
Copyright:
2002
Edition Description:
Trade Paperback
Series:
BFI Modern Classics
Series Volume:
no. 5J01-04
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
96
Dimensions:
7.44 x 5.45 x 0.26 in
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Product details 96 pages British Film Institute - English 9780851708713 Reviews:
"Review" by , "Erudite, concise, exhaustively researched and thoroughly illuminating, I read it in one sitting and was imediately covercome by a compulsion to view the film again."
"Review" by , "Tasker has produced an admirable work, one that displays rigor of argument without the bane of cumbersome jargon."
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In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre.
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