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 influences, along with that of 40s fashion, shaped one of the best known videos in popular music, Ultravox’s Vienna (1981), which you can view on youtube here. The influence of European cinema of the modernist and late-modernist period (or British / US / European, in the case of The Third Man) is strong in 1980s film and video culture, as we’ll see in Wenders’s Wings of Desire. The sleeve design for the single Vienna was developed by the hugely influential designer and taste-maker Peter Saville – you can see it here.
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