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Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)

The Silence of the Lambs

Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)

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English
BFI Publishing
02 December 2021
Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Film movie guides & reviews
Series: BFI Film Classics
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating ‘Buffalo Bill’, a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer and former psychiatrist who assists Starling in exchange for personal details.

With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, proto-action heroine, The Silence of the Lambs unfolds as a layered narrative of pursuit. In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the film’s weaving together of gothic, horror and thriller elements in its portrayal of insanity and crime, drawing out the centrality of ideas about gender to the storytelling. She identifies the film as a key genre reference point for tracking late twentieth century interests in police procedural, profiling and serial murder, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation.

A new afterword explores the legacies of The Silence of the Lambs and its figuring of crime and investigation in terms of gender disruption and spectacular violence.
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Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Height: 190mm,  Width: 135mm, 
Weight:   166g
ISBN:   9781839023675
ISBN 10:   1839023678
Series:   BFI Film Classics
Pages:   104
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Dedication Acknowledgments 1. Birds, Lambs and Butterflies 2. The Sum and the Parts: Horror, Crime and the Woman’s Picture 3. Detection and Deduction 4. The Female Gothic 5. Under the Skin 6. Afterword to the 2021 Edition Credits

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author and editor of several books exploring popular film and media including: The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015), Gendering the Recession: Media Culture in the Age of Austerity (with Diane Negra, 2014), Soldiers’ Stories: military women in cinema and television since WWII (2011), Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (with Diane Negra, 2007), Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998), Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993).

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