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Saturday, 3 June 2006

Hey wow! Alain Silver's "Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style," an analysis of Robert Aldrich's film noir of the Mike Hammer novel, is available online, including reproductions of the 50 frames dissected in the essay.

A low angle point-of-view shot, such as that of the feet of Hammer's captors (see Frame 9), also functions to withhold critical information-the faces of the men-and to have the viewer co-experience Hammer's mental note-taking of his only clue: the style of Soberin's shoes. Framing works with the choice of angle in that, objectively, both the fact of the viewer empathy with Christina, who the dialogue reveals has just been tortured to death, and the position of her white, lifeless legs in the center of the frame draw attention away from the aspect of the dark shoes in the surrounding foreground.

(Thanks to Beware of the Blog.)

posted: 9:06:18 PM  




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