dear tony
 
One film worth thinking about in this regard is ALIEN -- explicitly, the crew
treated as expendable commodities in aid of getting the creature back to the
"Company"'s Weapons Section; implicitly, the audience treated as
"thing-like", knowingly manipulated towards the accretion of mega-profit.
There's an escalating propensity in this direction from PSYCHO onwards (Hitch
another such knowing archmanipulator).
You may want to take a look at "Re-imagining the Gargoyle" and "On The
McMovie: Less Is Less At The Simplex" in SCREEN MEMORIES: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA ON
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC COUCH
 
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