Oh Vienna!

As Rob White’s short book for BFI mentions, the influence of Carol Reed’s The Third Man has permeated throughout film culture and beyond. One of the aspects we’ll consider in today’s “The City and the Cinematic Novel” seminar is the use of shadow and tilted camera angles in the Oscar-winning cinematography of the film. These [...]

The Only Anything and Everything

Following our discussion in the “Dream Cities” seminar about the possibility of describing cinema-going as a kind of communal dream, here’s a useful quotation from Dorothy Richardson (who keeps cropping up lately): “And so here we all are. All over London, all over England, all over the world. Together in this strange hospice risen overnight, [...]

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