The Silence of the Lambs
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The Silence of the Lambs

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The Silence of the Lambs

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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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Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2021
ISBN
9781839023682
Edition
2
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. BFI Film Classics
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Birds, Lambs and Butterflies
  8. 2 The Sum and the Parts: Horror Crime and the Woman’s Picture
  9. 3 Detection and Deduction
  10. 4 The Female Gothic
  11. 5 Under the Skin
  12. Afterword to the 2021 Edition
  13. Notes
  14. Credits
  15. eCopyright