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David Fincher: Mind Games: A Critical Survey of the Filmmaker Hardcover – November 23, 2021

by Adam Nayman (Author), Bong Joon-ho (Foreword), Little White Little White Lies (Producer)
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Adam Nayman’sDavid Fincher: Mind Games is the definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated works of the celebrated director.

Foreword by Bong Joon-ho

From feature films Alien 3, Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and Mank through his MTV clips for Madonna and the Rolling Stones and the Netflix series House of Cards and Mindhunter, each chapter of David Fincher: Mind Games weaves production history with original critical analysis, as well as with behind the scenes photography, still-frames, and original illustrations from Little White Lies’ international team of artists and graphic designers. The book also features interviews with Fincher’s frequent collaborators, including Jeff Cronenweth, Angus Wall, Laray Mayfield, Holt McCallany, Howard Shore, and Erik Messerschmidt.

Grouping the director’s work around themes of procedure, imprisonment, paranoia, prestige and relationship dynamics, David Fincher:Mind Games is styled as an investigation into a filmmaker obsessed with investigation, and the design will shift to echo case files within a larger psychological profile.
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About the Author

Adam Nayman is the author of Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks (Abrams, 2020) and The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together (Abrams, 2018) and is a contributing editor to Cinema Scope.

Little White Lies is one of the world’s pre-eminent film magazines, pairing a unique editorial angle with beautiful illustrations and world-class design.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams Books; Bilingual edition (November 23, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 141975341X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419753411
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.65 x 1.35 x 11.15 inches
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The typos killed me
I never leave reviews. If this book was $20 or less, I wouldn’t have bothered.Being a huge Fincher fan, I was excited. My review would have been 3 stars - a lot of words with nothing really interesting or new to say. Good coffee table book. Then I factored in the price for how little I got and it dropped to 2 stars. Then there were the typos. When I found the first one I was bummed, but mistakes happen. Even though I wasn’t enjoying the book I was still on the lookout for hidden gems. Then on page 32 (in the Se7en section) I find a typo that’s the protagonists NAME. Calls him “John Mills” instead of “David Mills.” After that easily avoidable mistake, I lost hope in finding anything well researched or thought out.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2022
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The book has a lot of information but the writers language to convey the message is a little superfluous and pretentious. YMMV
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2.0 out of 5 stars "Se7en's is dizzyingly vertiginous—which is to say pretentious"
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2021
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I absolutely loved Adam Nayman's books on the Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson, so understand I'm really disappointed to be leaving a review like this. The quality of the physical book is great! The pictures are great! But the constant pretentious vocabulary and dawdling nature of this book is horrible! I have no doubt an insane amount of research went it, and I'm sure Nayman knows exactly what he's talking about. That said, this isn't a friendly book. It's going to throw a billion unduly complicated words at you just because it can, and it's going to talk a heck of a lot about stuff you have no interest in (i.e not Fincher).

(note: I'm sure this book will be a blessing to certain people, it's just not for me)
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Ryan Brennan
1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this book
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023
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It must be exhausting to be Adam Nayman. That’s all I came away from this book feeling. I love Fincher, and was so excited to get this and dive head-first into his films and filmmaking. Instead all I got was some obnoxiously pretentious writer who must have failed at everything writing related except film criticism. Oh and some great photos.
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Alan Ganger
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad typographical layout, pretentious writing
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2023
I was not familiar with the author but couldn't make it through a page of this book. It was like it was written by an AI with a thesaurus.
The formatting of the book's text looks like it was done by someone who is still learning InDesign... the text is fully justified but with random enormous gaps between words and sentences.
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Landon Stahmer
1.0 out of 5 stars The typos killed me
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2022
I never leave reviews. If this book was $20 or less, I wouldn’t have bothered.

Being a huge Fincher fan, I was excited. My review would have been 3 stars - a lot of words with nothing really interesting or new to say. Good coffee table book. Then I factored in the price for how little I got and it dropped to 2 stars. Then there were the typos. When I found the first one I was bummed, but mistakes happen. Even though I wasn’t enjoying the book I was still on the lookout for hidden gems. Then on page 32 (in the Se7en section) I find a typo that’s the protagonists NAME. Calls him “John Mills” instead of “David Mills.” After that easily avoidable mistake, I lost hope in finding anything well researched or thought out.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The typos killed me
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2022
I never leave reviews. If this book was $20 or less, I wouldn’t have bothered.

Being a huge Fincher fan, I was excited. My review would have been 3 stars - a lot of words with nothing really interesting or new to say. Good coffee table book. Then I factored in the price for how little I got and it dropped to 2 stars. Then there were the typos. When I found the first one I was bummed, but mistakes happen. Even though I wasn’t enjoying the book I was still on the lookout for hidden gems. Then on page 32 (in the Se7en section) I find a typo that’s the protagonists NAME. Calls him “John Mills” instead of “David Mills.” After that easily avoidable mistake, I lost hope in finding anything well researched or thought out.
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David J. Walters
1.0 out of 5 stars Photos from films are too dark.
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2022
Really disappointing for a $45 book. Poor layout, lousy font and the photos from the films are so dark to be worthless. The author spends an inordinate amount of time discussing the source material rather than discussing the film.
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Becky
5.0 out of 5 stars Expertly written
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2022
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Quickly delivered, as advertised and reasonably priced. It was a birthday present for my son and he loves it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2021
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A well-written book about the Mastermind.
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