RARA-AVIS: Re: Acting Noir

E J M Duggan (eddie.duggan@suffolk.ac.uk)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 21:24:06 -0800 On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 billha@ionet.net (Bill Hagen) wrote:

>Add to period's styles of acting all the assertive, expressionistic
>camerawork, lighting, and editing and the whole package will strike them as
>posturing, not realism. They may value it only as "camp," like an early
>Dracula movie.

I drool with envy ... students discussing 'realism' and 'camp' ... oh
joy.
Makes a change from sleeping, snogging, giggling and 'Nah, I fawd id
wuzza loada crap, yeah; cos it woz orl blakkenwite right, and it wuz
just, crap, innit.'

;-> ED

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