10 Great Anti-Detective Films for the Post-Truth Era

"What happens when the detective enters a strange abstracting space where truth is no longer knowable or based on objective grounds, where contradictory truths seem to coexist, where paranoid fantasy replaces intuition, and the process of detection itself becomes suspect?
These are the questions asked by a countercurrent of anti-detective films emerging in the 1960's and 70's art cinemas – striking a new resonance, and re-emerging in our current era of 'post-truth' – which in one way or another deconstruct the assumptions on which the genre is founded from the perspectives of a new skeptical relativism, not only as genre critique, but also as a repurposing of this now disemboweled form to new and creative ends."

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