Synopsis
Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy (1963), Malcolm X (1965), Martin Luther King (1968), and Robert Kennedy (1968), together with the crimes of the Manson family, Altamont, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal.
Mark Campbell's study of the film situates it within this historical moment of increasing paranoia and conspiracy, analyzing the ways in which it not only reflected, but also actively constructed, this febrile worldview. He contextualizes the film as an adaptation of Loren Singer's 1970 pulp novel by the same name, and highlights the role of influential cinematographer, Gordon Willis, in constructing the visual style that was essential to the filmic representation of paranoia.
Focusing on the film itself, Campbell provides a detailed analysis of key scenes, particularly the central six-minute brainwashing sequence which featured imagery drawn from pop culture, advertising slogans, and violent imagery. He examines Pakula's use of the film-within-a-film visual trope, and how the scene refers to the then widely-held suspicion that television and mass media were tools of psychological conditioning", highlighting how this concern was reflective of new anxieties about corporate and media power."
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Mark Campbell is a Professor of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing, China and Senior Tutor in Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. He is a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architecture and as Managing Editor of Grey Room. His book publications include: Paradise Lost (2016), and the forthcoming contracted works, Bernard Berenson and the Art Market (2023) and Double Standards: The Post–Architectural Landscape of the United States (2026).
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