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... and texts, a vocal training that works against the dictates of standard punctuation, and the organization of a discipline to act are the main components of a methodology that refuses to obey a specific martial order of reading, speaking, and acting. Attending to Straub and Huillet's comments...

... that fails with Franz but might succeed with viewers. 80  •  Camera Obscura In this line of argument, Berlin Alexanderplatz  creates a fantasy that the serial form does not just punctuate our evenings from week to week but actively blurs the boundaries between the televisual world and the real...

... don’t recognize them. We see them appear very distinctly, physically, in at least two sequences. Numerous marks of enunciation punctuate the exchange (Terayama says several times: “Mr. Tanikawa. . And above all, the difference in the voices, the tones, and even...

... of wounded, China Beach offers up one of the montages that so often punctuate the closing moments of the show. This one is comprised of images of Lila tending to the men, in triage, in the O.R., in post-op. The montage is supposed to show us Lila’s memories, but since...

... of all punctuation: there is not a single fade-out be- tween the moment Marion abruptly leaves the garage where she has traded in her car and the moment her new car sinks into the marsh. This does not mean that 35 minutes of the film make up a single segment; the two other criteria...

... on Mars and, as we learn from the “objective” commentary (punctuated by the sound of machine-gun fire), the administrator of Mars Federal Colony, Milos Cohaagen (Ronny COX has had to suppress the attendant “violence”-albeit with a “minimal use of force.” The restoration...

... historian — produces a register that is at once transitory and permanent, one that pierces the viewer. Central to this sensation for me is not just Anna’s voice but her very breath. Many of her statements are punctuated by her audible breathing (a testament to the amateur quality of this film...

... incongruous detail in the suburban yard, he punctuates Cathy’s impossible sentence. He may just be the “anything” she doesn’t think she’s “ever wanted.” When he informs her that he is replacing his dead father as her gardener, Cathy puts her hand on his shoulder and apologizes for her previous tone. We...

... fragment; it performs like a fetish. And the film’s narrative stutters along in uneasy parallel with a series of arresting images, images that operate as hideous accidents would, to interrupt, punctuate, or detour the trips of passing motorists. So much for the form of such images. What...

... dernarcatory punctuation sutures, in a way, the trans- ition from segment to segment. Mark, thus, sees that which he cannot see, but which he is in the position of being able to imagine by means of the camera which sees in his place . This repeat-effect which makes Mark see-imagine what Hitchcock...

... Poole describes as “the ebb and flow of anxi- ety and satisfaction through the gameplaying experience.”3 While Poole focuses on tempo and pacing within commercial games, Queers invites an extratextual understanding of pacing. The game is a sustained ten-­second frenzy punctuated by clicks...

... a few songs, punctuated by more complaints, she demanded that the stage lights be turned off to disperse the insects. “They know what I look like!” she bellowed at the lighting crew when they only turned off a few lights. Then, in total darkness, she launched into her next number. Perhaps...

...-an aggressive full frontal display reminiscent of male nude magazines. This almost parodic rehearsal of a stylized porn scenario is one of the two moments of heterosexual sex that punctuate William Freidkin’s To Live and Die in LA (1985). The second of these moments centers on Rick Masters...

... “So We Will Go Bad”  •  153 Although Chytilová herself cannot be sure about what meaning the dialogues are guarding, Daisies is a series of loosely related attractions punctuated by dialogue. Slapstick also helps Daisies develop its own theory of spec- tatorship. Much has been said...

... into present-day Poland -a country she hasn’t seen since the war-and into the Poland of her memories. The director punctuates Sally’s words with archival footage of Polish shtetls (communities), merchants, and families from the early part of the century. Voices From...

... and laughing at inappropriate moments. Since the written dialogue deliberately rambles and contains many multisyllabic words, puppets tend to stumble. Awkward pauses often punctuate line delivery, as puppets await input from drivers or else miss the cue that a new line has appeared. Since puppets...

... disappear into the black screen; other images intertwine with one another, merge in fascinating arabesques -real hieroglyphs to be deciphered-and no words come to punctuate their appearance or disappearance. With the image of the main character being subjected...

... hours [the monsters] place themselves at the disposition of the great military-industrial complexes.” Evidently, we are all monsters . The interview begins, punctuated with titles and occasional voice- over comments like, “Despite evidence to the contrary, the reporter is not asking real...

... speaking into a mirror-in scraps of phrases, punctuated by long silences. Intercut into the dialogue between the two women are shots of a ravishing beauty of the sea, the countryside, a deserted beach, a ruined abbey. Accompanying the image track and the speech track is a throbbing, obsessive flute...

... of the world who cared to know. Our travels, set against the ongoing monotony of the occu- pation, were punctuated with tragic moments as well as with the discovery of alternative worlds in Palestine, including the queer community. Moving between activism, queer Palestine, and lm- making...