Description: Examines the implications of the nonreciprocal relationship between readers or watchers of films, and the characters whose private lives we have access to.
Review Quotes: "Jeremy Hawthorn powerfully calls our attention to the consequential work--both epistemological and ethical--that is done by narrative and cinematic conventions we all but take for granted. By focusing on the 'non-reciprocal relations' that structure our experience of texts, Hawthorn not only discovers connections between works rarely and so provocatively paired, but also forwards a subtle and convincing argument about the relationship between the allure of voyeurism and the logic of imagination." --Mark Goble, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley