David Fincher: Mind Games
Books | Performing Arts / Individual Director
Adam Nayman
David Fincher: Mind Games is the definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated works of director David Fincher. From feature films Alien 3, Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and Mank through his MTV clips for Madonna and the Rolling Stones and the Netflix series House of Cards and Mindhunter, each chapter weaves production history with original critical analysis, as well as with behind the scenes photography, still-frames, and original illustrations from Little White Lies' international team of artists and graphic designers. Mind Games also features interviews with Fincher's frequent collaborators, including Jeff Cronenweth, Angus Wall, Laray Mayfield, Holt McCallany, Howard Shore and Erik Messerschmidt. Grouping Fincher's work around themes of procedure, imprisonment, paranoia, prestige and relationship dynamics, Mind Games is styled as an investigation into a filmmaker obsessed with investigation, and the design will shift to echo case files within a larger psychological profile.
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Author
Adam Nayman
Pages
304
Publisher
Abrams
Published Date
2021-11-23
ISBN
1647002443 9781647002442
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"This is an incisive and clever overview of Fincher’s career, focusing on his own reputation as someone (overly?) concerned with process and how that is reflected in his work. The author looks at Fincher’s movies in thematic pairings — for example the procedurals SE7EN and ZODIAC the dubious male/female pairings in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and GONE GIRL — and how they connect and contrast with each other and the rest of Fincher’s career. A great read for fans. "
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