ghostwriting

His psychological thrillers like 'The Ghost Writer' directly explore paranoia, identity theft, and the erasure of authorship in shadowy political conspiracies.

Films like 'Gone Girl' and 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' obsessively examine how narratives are constructed, manipulated, and stolen by unseen hands.

His work in 'Graduation' and '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' reveals how individuals are invisible instruments of larger systems, their agency ghostwritten by institutions.