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"Andrew Albert J. Ty" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:45:00 +0800
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For an explicit depiction of what you term the new voyeurism, there is a good
review of Peter Weir's The Truman Show and Ron Howard's EDTV available on the
Film-Philosophy Salon's section for Online Writings. I don't have the exact URL,
but it's entitled "Watching Me, Watching You" or something like that. The URL is:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/writings.html. Of course,
these films too can be used for classroom screenings.

You may want to look into articles on interactivity as, to me at least, it seems
that this new voyeurism is tied up with that idea of (non)-participation. One film
that I used that was popular among ALL my students last summer was Spike Jonze's
Being John Malkovich. David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a pretty good film, too, if
you're willing to go towards this direction of a (pseudo)-interactive voyeurism.

Of course, there's also Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. I used to have the URL for
an online film journal which contained several articles on this, but I don't have
it now, and I can't remember the author's name of one particular essay that dealt
with the use of mirrors in the film. Keyword was metafiction, if I recall
correctly.

Finally, I know that many people hate the film, but The Blair Witch Project is a
good way of looking at this phenomenon. In Postmodern Culture--again, I'm sorry I
don't have the exact URL--there's an old issue that features a review of the film
by David Banash called "The Blair Witch Project: Technology and the Evisceration of
Mimesis," which I find full of provocative ideas.

Hope this helps,
Andrew

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