"The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer"--
The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher’s filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer.
The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze David Fincher’s development as a filmmaker, from television commercials and music videos to serving as front runner on the series Mindhunter. The contributors explore a variety of characteristics, including Fincher’s attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer. The diversity of approaches highlights the paradoxes of Fincher’s films and style, accentuating the tensions between his innovative methods and storytelling and unpacking the perennial questions of love, life, and death that his films raise. Scholars of film, television, and media will find this book especially salient.
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A Critical Companion to David Fincher captures all the ways in which Finchers work is interesting and important. Among the books 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
Introduction: David Fincher, the Master of Offset, Francis Mickus
Section I: The Art of Making Movies
Chapter 1: Film of Fury: David Finchers 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 Finchers Exteriors and Interiors,
Antonio Pettierre and Antonio Sanna
Chapter 6: To Reign in Hell: David Finchers 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 Finchers 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 Finchers Serial Killer
Narratives, Min-Chi Chen
Chapter 11:Youre Not Even Trying: The Practice of Persuasion and Influence
in Finchers 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 Finchers World,
Roberto Donati
Francis Mickus is a doctoral candidate in history at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
