The Silence of the Lambs

by Barry Forshaw

The 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, based on Thomas Harris's bestseller, was a game-changer in the fields of both horror and crime cinema. FBI trainee Clarice Starling was a new kind of heroine, vulnerable, intuitive, and in a deeply unhealthy relationship with her monstrous helper/opponent, the serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

Jonathan Demme's film skillfully appropriated the tropes of police procedural, gothic melodrama and contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906733651
• ISBN13: 9781906733650
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.4"