This essay was submitted as the final paper for Sidney Gottlieb’s Fall 2022 course, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Unseen Words: On-Screen Visuals / Off-Screen Dialogue in Rope (1948)
This essay was submitted as the final paper for Sidney Gottlieb’s Fall 2022 course, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
This is an essay on the 1936 Mervyn LeRoy film, Born to Dance, and its flirtation with integrated musical form.
This is an essay written as a midterm assignment for Sidney Gottlieb’s course, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Framing the Fall_Hitchcock’s Camera and the Journey Downhill
The research on this project began on something of a whim. While looking at the Charles Musser documentary Beyond the Nickelodeon (for this course), I was struck by two pieces of information I had not previously known. First, that saloons were utilized as early exhibition spaces at the turn of the century, specifically in the lower class and immigrant neighborhoods of New York City. Second, that Edwin S. Porter actually made films satirizing prominent figures in the temperance movement, most notably Carrie Nation in Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901).
I grew up in barrooms and have been lucky enough to travel the world and visit some of the oldest bars, taverns, saloons, inns, public houses, and cafes in existence. It has gone beyond a hobby. It is a passion, and on this very blog I published a list of my 100 favorite such establishments, open or closed. The notion of my two life passions, saloons and the cinema, having a “special relationship”, was exciting. It sent me on this research journey.
