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"[Serious minded criticism of Alfred Hitchcock's film ROPE] may be considered almost definitively shaped by a ritual of recounting and assessing the director's desire to do the film, as he put it, 'in a single shot,' or at any rate, as nearly without the benefit of montage as the state-of-the-art allowed in 1948, when a camera held only ten minutes worth of film. [Yet this technicist bias] has hardly managed to generate a single accurate account…
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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (Lionel Jeffries, 1970) was a film I ardently watched countless times on television as a child, and, I have to confess, I have seen and loved it countless times since. I had certainly seen it long before I saw L'ARRIVEE D'UN TRAIN EN GARE DE LA CIOTAT (Lumière Bros., 1895). I noticed the resemblance between the two films only when watching Jeffries' film again recently. But when I explored this, I was struck by the extent of…
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"[Pastiche] can, at its best, allow us to feel our connection to the affective frameworks, the structures of feeling, past and present, that we inherit and pass on. That is to say, it can enable us to know ourselves affectively as historical beings." Richard Dyer, PASTICHE (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) This video affords its viewers a real-time space for comparison of the opening titles sequences of ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk,…
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A real-time space for comparison, for scholarly purposes, of a sequence in the silent and sound versions of Alfred Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL (1929). Read more about this video and the films it features here: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2012/03/garden-of-forking-paths-hitchcocks.html. Also see: "Skipping ROPE (Through Hitchcock's Joins)" - http://vimeo.com/41195578
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A tiny transfusion of fleeting, Swedish, film sequences. Catherine Grant will discuss this companion piece to her video essay TOUCHING THE FILM OBJECT (http://filmanalytical.blogspot.com/2011/08/touching-film-object-notes-on-haptic-in.html) at a workshop on "VIDEO ESSAYS: FILM SCHOLARSHIP'S EMERGENT FORM" at the 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, 5pm on March 22, 2012 in Boston. Her fellow workshop participants will include Christian…
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