Footnotes

(1) TSS, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon.com [back]

(2) One early example can be seen in Hitchcock's Number 17 (1932) [back]

(3) Barry Keith Grant mentions some "standard" traits of the horror in "Rich and strange", CHC [back]

(4) Noel Carrol discusses the form and function of the film allusion in "The future of allusion" and the return of the genre movie in "Back to basics", in Interpreting the moving image [back]

(5) N Shyamalan, B Mendel (producer) on TSS [back]

(6) US box office and business data on IMDb [back]

(7) "Sixth Sense matches Titanic record" on movies.go.com, a Disney site [back]

(8) See Peter Krämer's "Would you take your child to see this movie?" in CHC, for a discussion of wide-target audience films [back]

(9) N Shyamalan, A Mondschein (editor), F Marshall (producer) on TSS [back]

(10) On credibility: Elsaesser & Buckland pp 84-85 [back]

(11) JG Spanne: The Swiss cheese factor (www.achrya.net) has a more detailed examination of the script's faulty coherence and credibility. [back]

(12) I Waldron-Mantagni criticizes the film for these reasons. Link from IMDb (uk-critic) [back]

(13) E Cowie discusses genre and suspension of disbelief in "Storytelling", CHC p 183 [back]

(14) Professional and semi-professional reviews accessible from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, user comments on IMDb and Amazon.com [back]

(15) e.g. James Berardinelli, link from IMDb [back]

(16) R Maltby in "Nobody knows everything", CHC pp 21-25 [back]

(17) IMDb rating, demographic breakdown [back]

(18) O Hedling, pp 55-63 and lecture notes [back]

(19) Classical vs. post-classical Hollywood cinema, T Elsaesser & W Buckland pp 27-29, 36-38,63 [back]

(20) Justin Wyatt's notion of "high concept" as described by R Maltby in "Nobody knows everyting", CHC p 38 [back]

(21) "Rules and clues" on TSS [back]

(22) Roger Ebert, link from IMDb [back]

(23) On some subjects with universal appeal, Dudley Andrew quoted by W Buckland in "A close encounter..." CHC pp 168-169 [back]

(24) Robin Wood quoted in O Hedling, p 146 [back]

(25) Robin Wood quoted in O Hedling, pp 145-146 [back]

(26) T Colette (actor), JN Howard (composer) on TSS. Comments by members of nytimes.abuzz.com [back]

(27) N Postman: Amusing ourselves to death, passim.
While Postman's analysis of the consequences may be criticized as argumentative, there is little reason to doubt his description of the impact of the visual media. [back]

(28) While Postman does not use the term "Disneyfication", it fits well into his concept. The term has appeared on a couple of occasions in Swedish and US newspaper articles, without attribution of origin. [back]