Re: unreliable narration in cinema
Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Thomas Carey [Bridewell] Southall <[email protected]> Hitchcock's 1950 thriller "Stage Fright" does not have misleading camera shots, per se, but the entire work is structured around (or *as*) a narrative falsehood. One might find camerawork and point-of-view that presages that, but I don't recall any striking example of it. Hitchcock later said he regretted doing it that way, since some thought he was merely tricking the audience unfairly with a very late revelation, but I found it rather fun. If he were to do that in every film it would not be effective, of course, to say nothing of annoying! Tom *THOMAS SOUTHALL *independent scholar & University of Missouri, Columbia ________________________________________ *THOMAS CAREY SOUTHALL* 573 449-8765 AKA Tom Southall Bridewell