Point Blank

Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)

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BFI Publishing
02 November 2023

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism

Series: BFI Film Classics

John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000).

Eric Wilson's compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank'. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness.

He goes on to reimagine the film's experimental style as a representation of and possible remedy for trauma.

Examining Boorman’s formal innovations, including his favouring of gesture over language and blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, he also positions the film as a grimly comical exploration of toxic masculinity and gender fluidity.

Wilson's close reading of Point Blank reveals it to be a film that innovatively inflects its own generation and speaks powerfully to our own, arguing that it is this amplitude, which encompasses the many major films it has influenced, that qualifies the film as a classic.

By: Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University USA)
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781839025761
ISBN 10: 183902576X
Series: BFI Film Classics
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 02 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction: Two Shots 1. Trauma 2. What You See Is What You See 3. Repetition 4. Color 5. Topsy-Turvydom Conclusion: Wide Shot Notes Credits Bibliography

Eric Wilson is Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. His publications include Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film (2006), The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr (2007). His writing has featured in Psychology Today, L.A. Times, The New York Times and Huffington Post.

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Point Blank

Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)

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