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Michael Eaton’s compelling study situates
in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In an absorbing account of the film’s narrative development and visual style, he traces
relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, the wider culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film’s narrative and visual impact.
In his afterword to this new edition, Eaton considers
1990 sequel
and also the movie’s changing fortunes in the years since its release.
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