70s Thrillers: Elmore Leonard - The Switch (1978: film, Life of Crime, 2014)

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Film and Talk with Scott Stelle, d.a.i. Tübingen. It's been said that genre films are especially good at capturing the political and cultural zeitgeist of the time. This quarter we will again look at the political conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s, due to the political and economic similarities between that decade and our own. A feeling of general paranoia has been created by the Pentagon Papers and Watergate as well as Wikileaks and Snowden's revelations. Being spied upon and lied to by authority figures touch fantasy systems at deep and primitive levels of the mind. Thrillers evoke this psychological tension and like detective fiction play with the distinction between appearance and reality. One quickly gathers from reading investigative journalism that law, commerce and politics undeniably deal with intrigue and lies, while thrillers - though technically a fiction - dramatically depict these worldly struggles in a more straightforward, true-to-life or humorous manner. Scott Stelle will discuss the book and also excerpts of the film.
 
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