Blow Out is concerned with the implications for the human subject raised by simulations. Like much of the Palma’s work of the late Seventies and early Eighties, it concerns the problem of representation, disguised within a convectional film genre. It is a ‘conspiracy’ film, a sub-genre of the detective thriller that emerged in the wake […]

There are few contemporary forms of representation that do not, in some way, make reference to the cinematic apparatus: to the filmic event and the spectator-effects that constitute the experience of cinema. The artifice of the mise-en-scene, architectural scale, the use of the screen and projected light, and the principles of montage and editing that […]