Small Pleasures
Two remarkable moments in Max Ophüls’ Le plaisir (1952), both “La maison Tellier,” second of the film’s three movements. We have already been introduced to the eccentric, charming, late nineteenth-century…
Hitchcock’s cryptonymies.
Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's cryptonymies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. (In two volumes) Vol. I, Secret Agents, 284pp, ISBN: 0 8166 4206 0 (pb) US$25 Vol. II, War Machines, 300pp, ISBN: 0…
Three Small Gestures
A general understanding of the gesture - its ideal proportion, the conventions and parameters of its normal usage, its relation to or putative origin in expression and feeling - is…
Vertigo Again
What e'er thou hearest or seest, stand all aloof. Romeo and Juliet v.3 Prelude We have all worried through this labyrinth many times. And virtually every scholar who really cares…