- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Wedding Party (1964–65) -
Chapter 2 Murder à la Mod (1966) -
Chapter 3 Greetings (1968) -
Chapter 4 Dionysus in ’69 (1970) -
Chapter 5 Hi, Mom! (1970) -
Chapter 6 Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) -
Chapter 7 Sisters (1973) -
Chapter 8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) -
Chapter 9 Obsession (1976) -
Chapter 10 Carrie (1976) -
Chapter 11 The Fury (1978) -
Chapter 12 Home Movies (1980) -
Chapter 13 Dressed to Kill (1980) -
Chapter 14 Blow Out (1981) -
Chapter 15 Scarface (1983) -
Chapter 16 Body Double (1984) -
Chapter 17 Wise Guys (1986) -
Chapter 18 The Untouchables (1987) -
Chapter 19 Casualties of War (1989) -
Chapter 20 The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) -
Chapter 21 Raising Cain (1992) -
Chapter 22 Carlito’s Way (1993) -
Chapter 23 Mission: Impossible (1996) -
Chapter 24 Snake Eyes (1998) -
Chapter 25 Mission to Mars (2000) -
Chapter 26 Femme Fatale (2002) -
Chapter 27 The Black Dahlia (2006) -
Chapter 28 Redacted (2007) -
Chapter 29 Passion (2012) - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
Snake Eyes (1998)
Snake Eyes (1998)
- Chapter:
- (p.249) (p.242) Chapter 24 Snake Eyes (1998)
- Source:
- Brian De Palma's Split-Screen
- Author(s):
Douglas Keesey
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter explores multi-perspectivism in Snake Eyes (1998), in which Atlantic City police detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) undertakes an investigation, interrogating witnesses and studying video footage from many surveillance cameras to determine whether there might have been a conspiracy behind the assassination of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Here we also have another film rooted in De Palma's obsession with the John F. Kennedy assassination and the far-reaching inquiry to which it gave rise. However, by tracking De Palma's treatment of this topic over the course of several films, he has since moved from cynical realism to a more idealistic fantasy regarding the hero's success at solving the crime and making it public.
Keywords: assassinations, Snake Eyes, multi-perspectivism, Kennedy assassination, cynical realism, idealistic fantasy
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Wedding Party (1964–65) -
Chapter 2 Murder à la Mod (1966) -
Chapter 3 Greetings (1968) -
Chapter 4 Dionysus in ’69 (1970) -
Chapter 5 Hi, Mom! (1970) -
Chapter 6 Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) -
Chapter 7 Sisters (1973) -
Chapter 8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) -
Chapter 9 Obsession (1976) -
Chapter 10 Carrie (1976) -
Chapter 11 The Fury (1978) -
Chapter 12 Home Movies (1980) -
Chapter 13 Dressed to Kill (1980) -
Chapter 14 Blow Out (1981) -
Chapter 15 Scarface (1983) -
Chapter 16 Body Double (1984) -
Chapter 17 Wise Guys (1986) -
Chapter 18 The Untouchables (1987) -
Chapter 19 Casualties of War (1989) -
Chapter 20 The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) -
Chapter 21 Raising Cain (1992) -
Chapter 22 Carlito’s Way (1993) -
Chapter 23 Mission: Impossible (1996) -
Chapter 24 Snake Eyes (1998) -
Chapter 25 Mission to Mars (2000) -
Chapter 26 Femme Fatale (2002) -
Chapter 27 The Black Dahlia (2006) -
Chapter 28 Redacted (2007) -
Chapter 29 Passion (2012) - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
