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Rollerball, the Canadian-born director and producer Norman
Jewison's 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous
corporations and their executive elite, in which all individual
effort and aggressive emotions are subsumed into a horrifically
violent global sport, remains critically overlooked. What little
has been written deals mainly with its place within the renaissance
of Anglo-American science fiction cinema in the 1970s, or focuses
on the elaborately shot, still visceral to watch, game sequences,
so realistic they briefly gave rise to speculation Rollerball may
become an actual sport. Drawing on numerous sources, including
little examined documents in the archive of the film's screenwriter
William Harrison, Andrew Nette examines the many dimensions of
Rollerball's making and reception: the way it simultaneously
exhibits the aesthetics and narrative tropes of mainstream action
and art-house cinema; the elaborate and painstaking process of
world creation undertaken by Jewison and Harrison; and the cultural
forces and debates that influenced them, including the increasing
corporate power and growing violence in Western society in late
1960s and early 1970s. Nette shows how a film that was derided by
many critics for its violence works as a sophisticated and
disturbing portrayal of a dystopian future that anticipates
numerous contemporary concerns, including "fake news" and declining
literary and historical memory. The book includes an interview with
Jewison on Rollerball's influences, making, and reception.
A special noir-themed issue of Contrappasso Magazine, an
independent journal of international writing. This one's a grab bag
of essays, interviews, and new and classic poetry focusing on noir
in film and fiction. We cover everything from 'The Maltese Falcon'
to 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers', from Dashiell Hammett to
Charles Willeford and Walter Mosley. Contains essays by Luc Sante,
Lester Goran, Dahlia Schweitzer & Toby Miller, Morris Lurie,
Andrew Nette, Mick Counihan, Noel King, and Matthew Asprey; poetry
by Barry Gifford, Nicholas Christopher, Suzanne Lummis, Jonathan
Aaron, Robert Mezey, Chris Oakey, and Floyd Salas; and interviews
with Adrian Wootton, Matthew Moring, and Dennis McMillan.
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