Announcement: AMS Film Series Returns This Thursday with 'The Game'

Join us for another installment of the AMS Film Series, which is featuring films related to this year's department theme: security/insecurity. This week's film, David Fincher's The Game, will be introduced by Dr. Randolph Lewis, whose research includes surveillance culture and cinema studies.

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The film features wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton, who gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life. Before there was Fight Club, there was The Game, Fincher's under-appreciated masterpiece -- a dark examination of morose privilege, perverse entertainment, and Situationist surveillance. Nothing is what it seems… no one can be trusted… nothing can protect you.Check it out in CMA 2.306 at 6:15 on Thursday, October 24.For more about American Studies at UT, subscribe to our newsletter here.