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Literature & Fiction

Christopher Sorrentino

Contemporary

Vintage Books

2005 National Book Award Finalist for FictionA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Novel of the YearIt is 1974 and a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla name"Tania" and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania's sentimental education.

Literary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international cult classics, and more. Passionate and idiosyncratic, each volume of Deep Focus is long-form criticism that’s relentlessly provocative and entertaining. Christopher Sorrentino’s examination of Death Wish is the second entry in the series. The fourth collaboration between director Michael Winner and actor Charles Bronson, Death Wish was the apotheosis of a succession of films hitting screens during the seventiesincluding Bullitt, Dirty Harry, and Walking Tallthat tacked against a prevailing liberal wind in Hollywood cinema. Exploiting audience fears of a bestial other” infesting American cities, and explicitly linking law and order with a pastoral ideal of the Old West (and exurban subdivisions), its glib endorsement of vigilantism infuriated liberal critics even as it filled theaters with cheering audiences. Sorrentino examines Death Wish in its various contextsas movie, as provocation, as social commentary, as political tautology, and as depiction of urban lifeand considers its lasting influence on cinema.

Death Wish: A Novel Approach to Cinema (Deep Focus)

History & Criticism

Catapult

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