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The Sting - A Novel Approach to Cinema (Paperback)
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The Sting - A Novel Approach to Cinema (Paperback)
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From Melville to Madoff, the Confidence Man is an essential
American archetype. George Roy Hill's 1973 film The Sting treats
this theme with a characteristic dexterity. The movie was warmly
received in its time, winning seven Academy Awards, but there were
some who thought the movie was nothing more than a slight
throwback. Pauline Kael, among others, felt Hill's film was
mechanical and contrived: a callow and manipulative attempt to
recapture the box-office success of Robert Redford and Paul
Newman's prior pairing, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
Matthew Specktor's passionate, lyric meditation turns The Sting on
its head, on its side, and right-side-up in an effort to unpack the
film's giddy complexity and secret, melancholic heart. Working off
interviews with screenwriter David S. Ward and producer Tony Bill,
and tacking from nuanced interpretation of its arching moods and
themes to gimlet-eyed observation of its dizzying sleights-of-hand,
Specktor opens The Sting up to disclose the subtle and stunning
dimensions--sexual, political, and aesthetic--of Hill's best film.
Through Specktor's lens, The Sting reveals itself as both an
enduring human drama and a meditation on art-making itself, an ode
to the necessary pleasure of being fooled at the movies.
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