Andy, I will look for that scene. If indeed "It has a sort of purpose, but no meaning" then it is exactly what I'm searching for.
Many thanks Ittai On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Andy Ditzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Consider the brief close-up appearance of the cockatoo around the last > third of Citizen Kane. Cut to bird, loud bird shriek on soundtrack, then > back to the story. Welles' purpose in this odd cutaway was to wake up the > audience, exactly as Tom Whiteside describes with his experience. ("It has > a sort of purpose, but no meaning" - reference on p. 72 of This Is Orson > Welles.) I suspect other singularities, at least in the novel use of them > by Hollywood, have a similar purpose/effect. > > D. A. Miller has written interestingly on Hitchcock's cameos in a way that > could be connected to their "singularity" within each film; but then again, > the cameos as a whole represent a coherence in that they occur throughout > Hitchcock's career. > > Andy Ditzler > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Ittai Rosenbaum <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music >> composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my >> Qualification Exams topics. I wondered if anyone could perhaps have >> interesting knowledge or insights about a subject in film theory that might >> parallel one of my topics. >> >> I am interested in singular events in composition: events that occur only >> once, contrasted and incoherent to the main musical language of the work, >> yet deliberately conceived and intentionally inserted in the composition, >> contributing, by way of distraction and surprise, to the conception of the >> piece. >> >> Coherence seems to constitute a compulsory element in composition, and >> even incoherence (surprise, collage etc.) as it happens in the music of, >> say, Charles Ives, George Crumb or John Zorn, becomes coherent and even >> homogenous once it recurs. I suspect that *singular*, incoherent events >> may have a genuine effect, different than that. >> >> I am interested in parallel or similar phenomena in film, as my own >> compositions are more than often related to the visual, verbal, social and >> other elements usually inherent in film. >> Far from an expert in films, I do recall several instances where I felt I >> have viewed such singular events in film: the awakening in Chris Marker’s >> La jetée – a single moment of two seconds of movement in a film made >> entirely of stills, some moments that I can't recall now in Fellini's films >> (although usually there is a certain "homogeneity of singularity" in the >> ones I saw), and a comic one, in Mel Brooks’s *Silent Movie*, when the >> famous pantomime Marcel Marceau utters the only single word in the film: >> “no!” >> >> I would be very interested to know if this is something that has been >> written about and generally what your experience and opinion is. >> >> thank you >> >> >> -- >> Ittai Rosenbaum >> www.ittairosenbaum.com >> >> (650) 704-6566 >> >> PRÆSENTEM >> >> http://earbits.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Ittai Rosenbaum www.ittairosenbaum.com (650) 704-6566 PRÆSENTEM http://earbits.com/
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