Double Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon

Author:

Monk, Philip

Details:

Toronto, Ont: The Power Plant, 2003.
(272 p. 32 col ill)

ISBN:

0-921047-96-7

Price:

24.95

The book Double Cross examines Douglas Gordon's intervention into Hollywood film, focusing on works by Gordon whose source films developed within the Hollywood tradition of film noir. Although Gordon works within extant bodies of film, he acts as an author mirroring his own themes in those of his host films. His fictional world is carefully structured with its formal interventions focusing attention on the themes of madness and the double, the chiasm of fate, and the binding of trust and guilt. Beyond good and evil, Gordon's work is all about dissemblance.By Philip Monk. Co-published with the Art Gallery of York University and distributed by D.A.P.