Re: unreliable narration in cinema
Darryl Wiggers <[email protected]>
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From: "Maiershofer, Erik C" <[email protected]> Erik C. Maiershofer [email protected] Hope International University Would "The Life Before her Eyes" or any other number of films with a plot similar to the short story "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" fir what you are looking for? The examples there would be legion: Vanilla Sky Donnie Darko Waking Life etc. On a side note, it would be just fine with me if this was never the plot line of another film again. It stopped being clever a long time ago. -----Original Message----- From: H-NET List for Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Nolley Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: unreliable narration in cinema 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