Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film

by Seth Friedman

Book Overview

Are You Watching Closely? is the first book to explore the recent spate of "misdirection films," a previously unidentified Hollywood 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 Beautiful Mind (2001), and Inception (2010), were both commercial and critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438465904
• ISBN13: 9781438465906
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"