----------------------------Original message---------------------------- At 3:53 PM 4/5/95 -0500, Donald Larsson wrote: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >Kristine Butler writes: >"I'd like to elicit a mass brainstorming effort: I'm working on an idea >concerning films in which a pre-recorded message plays a part in conveying >narrative information (an answering machine, a tape player, etc.). >Example: in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pepa's boyfriend >exists primarily as the messages he leaves on her answering machine. >Anything you can think of would be greatly appreciated. More on this >later. Thanks!!" > >Do you mean only *electronically* pre-recorded messages? There are many, many > examples of *print* messages having a role in the narrative. > >Two electronic sources that come to mind are the original film verison of DEATH > OF >A SALESMAN, which includes a wire recorder, and the giant on-the-wall > reel-to-reel answering maching in Mike Hammer's apartment in KISS ME DEADLY. > >Don Larsson, Mankato State U. (MN) First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who has been submitting ideas to this effort. Just to let you know, I will be keeping in touch on the uses I make of this information. At the moment I'm only information-gathering, but my primary work on this will be in the summer and the fall. At sometime in the nearish future, I'll send a copy of my prospectus to SCREEN-L. In response to Don Larsson's question, yes, I do only mean electronically pre-recorded messages, as I am looking primarily at sound recordings. Kris Butler University of Minnesota [log in to unmask]