The cult movie Vanishing Point and the existential odyssey of Kowalski, a defiant American hero

Existential criticism, as formulated by the English philosopher and novelist Colin Wilson (1931–2013), can be applied to performance texts, such as those of cinema and theatre, taken as sub-divisions of literature, as well as to fiction — as was Wilson’s original intention — despite the fact that unlike a novel or a poem, they are not the products of a single author’s mind but the creations of a large number of individuals, from directors, writers and actors through a whole range of technicians…