Dead Man

Name: Dead Man
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ISBN: 9780851708065

ISBN-10: 0851708064

ISBN-13: 9780851708065

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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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 considerably. 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, and it's a film that speaks powerfully to present-day concerns. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 8/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.44" wide x 7.65" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Jim Jarmusch as American Independent, Dead Man as Deal-breaker



The Story



On Tobacco



On Violence



On Music



On the Acid Western



Frontier Poetry



Closure



Aside on Authorship and Methods of Composition


Notes


Credits


Bibliography