Book + Film Club May: Unmasking The Silence of Lambs
To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.
Jonathan Demme
In-Person
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
May 27
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion. Dates, descriptions, and registration deadlines below.
Registration Deadline to have books picked up: Friday, May 1st. Books will be mailed within 72 hours of this date.
Registration Deadline to have books picked up: Monday, May 18th. Books can be picked up from our Box Office during our regular operating hours Thursday & Friday from 2pm til Close and on Saturday & Sunday from 10:30am until close.
Book: The Silence of the Lambs (BFI Film Classics) by Yvonne Tasker
With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, proto-action heroine, The Silence of the Lambs unfolds as a layered narrative of pursuit. In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the film's weaving together of gothic, horror and thriller elements in its portrayal of insanity and crime, drawing out the centrality of ideas about gender to the storytelling. She identifies the film as a key genre reference point for tracking late twentieth century interests in police procedural, profiling and serial murder, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation.
Film: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.