Reading Time: 11 minutesOverview Interpellation is Louis Althusser’s term for how ideology addresses an individual so the individual recognizes the address as meant for them and steps into a social role (Althusser 1971). The central question for film analysis is direct: what role does the film invite the spectator to occupy, and how does the film make that… Continue reading Interpellation in Film Theory: How Films “Hail” the Spectator