- Rodney Farnsworth - The Infernal Return: The Recurrence of the Primordial in Films of the Reaction Years, 1977-1983 PDF





George Lucas and other leading filmmakers acknowledge their indebtedness to mythographic scholarship on archetypes. In this new study, author Rodney Farnsworth identifies a pattern of filmmakers obsessions with archetypical rituals centered on sacrifice and the family in films made between 1977 and 1983, a period of political upheaval on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining a strong historical reading of the films in a sociopolitical context, and utilizing Queer Theory as a framework for his arguments, Farnsworth offers a close examination of this phenomenon, analyzing key films of the period, including works by Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, and Fancis Ford Coppola, and provides a fascinating and timely glimpse of an important political and cinematic time.


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