Are you watching closely? cultural paranoia, new technologies, and the contemporary Hollywood misdirection film
"Seth Friedman explores the recent spate of 'misdirection films, ' a genre characterized by narratives that inspire viewers to reinterpret them retrospectively. Since 1990, Hollywood has backed more of these films than ever before, many of which, including The Sixth Sense (1999), A Be...
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Albany
SUNY Press
[2017]
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| Schriftenreihe: | The SUNY Series, Horizons Of Cinema
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Retrospective issues: the discursive approach to genre and the misdirection film
- The truth is out there: manufacturing conspiratorial narrative coherence
- Constructing the (im)perfect cover: masculine masquerade and narrative agency
- Start making sense: narrative complexity, DVD, and online fandom
- The masters of misdirection: branding M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan
- Genre prestige: the misdirection film as blockbuster and middlebrow art
- Conclusion