SevenBritish Film Institute, 1999 - 88 pages Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Envy, Wrath. A serial killer on a warped mission who turns his victims' "sins" into the means of their murder. "Seven" (1995) is one of the most acclaimed American films of the 1990s. Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey, "Seven" is the darkest of films. In it performance, cinematography, sound, and plot combine to create a harrowing account of a world beset by an all-encompassing, irremediable wickedness. Richard Dyer explores in turn the questions of sin, story, structure, seriality, sound, sight and salvation, analyzing how "Seven" both epitomizes and modifies the serial killer genre that is such a feature of recent cinema. |
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... University of Wisconsin Press , 1997 ) ; Judith Walkowitz , City of Dreadful Delight ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1992 ) , Chapter 7 and epilogue . 15 Kemper was convicted of eight murders in 1973 ( six young women , his ...
... University of Wisconsin Press , 1997 ) ; Judith Walkowitz , City of Dreadful Delight ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1992 ) , Chapter 7 and epilogue . 15 Kemper was convicted of eight murders in 1973 ( six young women , his ...
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... University Press , 1992 ) , pp . 233-52 . 24 Found guilty in 1892 of murdering four prostitutes in London ; in a study of him , Angus McLaren observes that such a serial killer is ' likely best understood not so much as an " outlaw " as ...
... University Press , 1992 ) , pp . 233-52 . 24 Found guilty in 1892 of murdering four prostitutes in London ; in a study of him , Angus McLaren observes that such a serial killer is ' likely best understood not so much as an " outlaw " as ...
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... University Press , forthcoming ) . 47 Ibid . 48 lbid . 49 Morgan Freeman on Criterion Laserdisc . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 04895 9343 D D D SEVEN 81.
... University Press , forthcoming ) . 47 Ibid . 48 lbid . 49 Morgan Freeman on Criterion Laserdisc . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 04895 9343 D D D SEVEN 81.
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