What is it about?
An investigation of the films Dark City and The Truman Show: looking at how they depict Surveillance and the Destabilization of Identity at the end of the Twentieth Century. These two sci-fi films examine how individuals who don't fit in with society feel persecuted by their worlds and made to feel like outcasts.
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Why is it important?
With both of these films were released at the end of the Twentieth Century, amid the rise of CCTV and other surveillance technology, and the popularity of TV shows in the style of Big Brother, and reflect how this constant observation might be fictionalised in an intriguing and insightful way.
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This is article that shows how film research can bring in aspects of architectural theory and philosophy to examine how sci-fi films reflect concerns about the time they were made in.
Alex Fitch
University of Brighton
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This page is a summary of: Dark City and The Truman Show: Surveillance and the Destabilization of Identity, Film Criticism, September 2019, University of Michigan Library,
DOI: 10.3998/fc.13761232.0043.203.
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