Susan Hayward writes that when watching New Hollywood cinema, the spectator is constantly: Film & Screen Media Essay, UCC, Ireland

Susan Hayward writes that when watching New Hollywood cinema, the spectator is ‘constantly held at a distance – both because we don’t quite understand what we are seeing and because we have no entry in by way of identification with the central protagonist’. Discuss the incongruities and inconsistencies that challenge spectator identification in at least one example of New Hollywood cinema.