Die Hard - Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics) New Hollywood Reviled and bowdlerised at its

Reviled and bowdlerised at its debut

- Audio commentary with writer/director/editor Ti West

Photographed by Palme d’Or-winning cinematographer Mario Masini (Padre Padrone) and scored by Academy Award-winner Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful)

with material addressing the screenwriter's contract with the audience

and their relationship begins to vacillate between intensely personal and unsettlingly suspicious

Die Hard - Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics) New Hollywood Reviled and bowdlerised at its'Die Hard' by Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics 104 page paperback) In 1988, Die Hard provided the blueprint for a new, reactionary Hollywood cinema. In response to an emerging post Cold War global instability, the film provided fictional redress for a decline in American international prestige post Vietnam. Jon Lewis' study focuses on the film's late 1980s variation on a well worn movie action template, with Bruce Willis' John McClane tragically cast as a