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Point Blank

(book in English)

by Eric G. Wilson

Type
Studies
Subject
One FilmPoint Blank
Keywords
John Boorman, Lee Marvin
Publishing Date
2023 (September 07, 2023)
Publisher
BFI Publishing
Collection
BFI Film Classics
Language
English
Size of a pocketbookRelative size of this bookSize of a large book
Dimensions
Physical desc.
Paperback • 112 pages • 18 €
5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm)
ISBN
978-1-8390-2576-1
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Book Presentation:
John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000).

Eric Wilson's compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank'. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness.

He goes on to reimagine the film's experimental style as a representation of and possible remedy for trauma. Examining Boorman’s formal innovations, including his favouring of gesture over language and blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, he also positions the film as a grimly comical exploration of toxic masculinity and gender fluidity.

Wilson's close reading of Point Blank reveals it to be a film that innovatively inflects its own generation and speaks powerfully to our own, arguing that it is this amplitude, which encompasses the many major films it has influenced, that qualifies the film as a classic.

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