Touch of Evil

Name: Touch of Evil
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781844579495
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By Richard Deming

Series: BFI Film Classics

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Richard Deming's Touch of Evil offers a detailed study of Orson Welles' 1958 classic noir film about a corrupt police chief navigating tension at the Mexican-American border. The book explores the film’s complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson, delving into its production history and providing close analyses of key scenes, including the famous single-take opening sequence that tracks a booby-trapped car through city streets and across the border.
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This book is ideal for film aficionados, students of cinema, and anyone interested in the noir genre or the works of Orson Welles.

A study of Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil in the BFI Film Classics series.

A study of Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil in the BFI Film Classics series.

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Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema.

Richard Deming's study of the film considers it as an outstanding example of the noir genre and explores its complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. He traces the film's production history, and provides an insightful close analysis of its key scenes, including its famous opening sequence, a single take in which the camera follows a booby-trapped car on its journey through city streets and across the border.

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Critics praise Deming's work for its engaging narrative and insightful analysis. Total Film highlights its thoughtful rebuttal of Paul Schrader's claim that the film is "film noir’s epitaph" and notes the lasting influence of Orson Welles. The Best American Poetry blog calls it a fine guide to the film’s intricate and sometimes puzzling plot. The Times Literary Supplement commends the book for conveying the film’s visceral and knowing portrayal of idealism’s demise.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844579495

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 60 bw illus

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 172g

Pages: 104

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About the Author

Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. His most recent book of poems, Day for Night,appeared in 2016. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading(2008), and Art of the Ordinary: the Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Literature, and Philosophy (2018). He contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and The Boston Review. His poems have appeared in such places as Iowa Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, and The Nation. He teaches at Yale University, USA where he is the Director of Creative Writing. Winner of the Berlin Prize, he was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.