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Kristin Thompson = still that girl! 😤

Laura chapter is almost definitive. This is due to the time of its writing and release; Waldo Lydecker as a queer figure would add significant repercussions for the discussion of Mulvey’s voyeur/fetishist dynamic presented here, as the characterization of Waldo as solely impotent rather than queer-coded simplifies the analysis.

Thompson’s chapter on Tout Va Bien has fundamentally changed me as a film scholar.

Has the strength of Bordwell’s rigorous studies of style without foreclosing the significance of meaning and ideology as devices, functions, and symptoms of the work. My favorite book on how to look at films.