The Perfect Human and ‘modern cinema’

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>While this film has been described as ‘modern’ in terms of its style and structure, approaching the film as ‘modern cinema’ in the terms defined by Richard Rushton allows us to consider the effects of its deliberate disjunction between ‘theatricality’ and ‘absorption’, or an exhibitionistic and a voyeuristic regime.</jats:p>