Deer Hunter - Brad Prager (BFI Film Classics)

'The Deer Hunter' by Brad Prager (BFI Film Classics Series)

A study of Michael Cimino's film which considers its significance as a war movie and puts its critical reception into context. Prager also an analysis of the film's form which presents itself as a work of cinema realism while also being a blurring of fact and fiction. Finally he compares the film to other films about US military intervention.