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Keith Hampson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:41:47 +1000
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Kristine,
The film "The Conversation" jumps to mind.Further, it can be employed as
a vehicle for demonstrating (and playing with) viewer voyeurism.
 
 Keith
 
On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Kristine Butler wrote:
 
> Can anyone help me in thinking of movies in which a conversation or a human
> voice is deliberately obstructed or drowned out by another sound, thus
> frustrating the spectator's access to the voice or voices in question?
> Godard does this in certain of his films, and I'm thinking that Hitchcock
> has too (in that this is a clever way to build suspense).  Thanks in
> advance!
>
> ************
> Kristine J. Butler
> Department of French and Italian
> University of Minnesota
>
> "To dissect is a form of revenge."
> -Gustave Flaubert
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