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

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is in a Name?: The Misdirection Film Genre in its Contexts
Subsets of Misdirection: Defining the Changeover and the Master Key Films
Chapter Outline
1 Retrospective Issues: The Discursive Approach to Genre and the Misdirection Film
Theoretical Gag Order: The Drawbacks of the Discursive Approach to Genre
If You’ve Seen One, You Haven’t Seen Them All: Differentiating the Misdirection Film
Obliterating the “Ideal” Man: Fight Club’s Misunderstood Changeover
Atoning for the Sins of the Father: Unlocking the Meaning of Magnolia’s Master Key
2 The Truth Is Out There: Manufacturing Conspiratorial Narrative Coherence
The Popularization of a Great American Tradition: Agency Panic and Contemporary Conspiracy Theorizing
Postmodern Disguise: Misdirection Films and Hollywood Modernism
Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean You Can Do Anything About It: Arlington Road and Agency Panic
Here Come the Men in Black: Jacob’s Ladder and Paranoia as Heightened Awareness
3 Constructing the (Im)perfect Cover: Masculine Masquerade and Narrative Agency
Masquerade Required: Preserving Male Essence in the Misdirection Film
Unbreakable Masculinity: Reclaiming Men’s “Rightful” Place
Misreading The Usual Suspects: Feigning Fragility to Bolster Authority
4 Start Making Sense: Narrative Complexity, DVD, and Online Fandom
Hollywood in the Digital Era: Media Convergence and New Narrative Strategies
Games of Discovery and Decipherment: Interpretive Practices in the Digital Age
Finding the Way on Mulholland Dr.: Willing Narrative Coherence and Closure
Understanding Memento: Unreliable Memories and Untrustworthy Evidence
5 The Masters of Misdirection: Branding M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan
Nice Package: Product Differentiation and Authorship in Contemporary Hollywood
A Surprising Authorial Twist: The Rise and Fall of M. Night Shyamalan
Authorial Hybridity: Christopher Nolan as Indie Auteur for the Blockbuster Age
6 Genre Prestige: The Misdirection Film as Blockbuster and Middlebrow Art
Middlebrow Tastes: The Blockbuster Film and Award Show Accolades
You Mustn’t Be Afraid to Dream a Little Bigger: Inception and the Misdirection Film’s Blockbuster Leap of Faith
Is It Better to Make a Low- or High-Art Misdirection Film?: The Kafkaesque Genius of Shutter Island’s Middlebrow Appeal
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index