Monthly Archives: May 2013

From The ACL Movie Book: A Guide to Making Better Movies, published by The Amateur Cinema League, 1940. The wipeoff / wipe described above has many of variations in 1930s and 40s cinema. One interesting example: the trailer for Andy … Continue reading →

From Herman Melville’s “The Tartarus of Maids” (1855): From Karl Marx’s “Estranged Labour” (1844): Let us now look more closely at the objectification, at the production of the worker; and in it at the estrangement, the loss of the object, of his product. … Continue reading →

From the front page of The New York Times, May 19, 2013: From David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (2011):

Reading the reissue of Renata Adler’s Speedboat (1976) this reference to the emergency number 911 caught my eye: Although, by 1976, the 911 system had already been in place for years in NYC it didn’t become a fixed idea nationally … Continue reading →