Dead Man

The BFI Film Classics

By: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Paperback | 1 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmuschâs 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 rapidly. Indeed Dead Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmuschâs finest work to date.

This is Jonathan Rosenbaumâs view. For him, Dead Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmuschâs career. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explorers and celebrates a masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.

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'The book follows the narrative and picks out some of the stand-out cameos as well as some of the choice of dialogue, music, style and violence within. Just another good choice from the BFI/Palgrave on another solid film with heavy content.' - Filmwerk

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Film Theory & Criticism General Issues in Art

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Jim Jarmusch as American Independent, Dead Man as Deal-breaker	p. 7
The Story	p. 27
On Tobacco	p. 34
On Violence	p. 37
On Music	p. 42
On the Acid Western	p. 47
Frontier Poetry	p. 63
Closure	p. 81
Aside on Authorship and Methods of Composition	p. 83
Notes	p. 87
Credits	p. 89
Bibliography	p. 93
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Dead Man

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