Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics)

Rosenbaum, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0851708064 / ISBN 13: 9780851708065

Published by British Film Institute, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics)
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851708064
• ISBN 13: 9780851708065
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time has passed, though, the number of its admirers has grown rapidly. Indeed Dead Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date.

This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view. For him, Dead Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmusch's career. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explorers and celebrates a masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.

About the Author

Jonathan Rosenbaum is film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of Movie Wars (2002) and Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics, 2000), among many other books.