Can anyone direct me to applications of Bakhtin's notion of dialogism
specifically to film.  I am less interested in work on the carnivalesque in
film as I am in stuff which tries to apply Bakhtin's ideas about the
dialogic nature of language and meaning making to the moving image.

Thanks much,

Mikhail Gershovich



----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Andrew Hutchins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Kurosawa and Godzilla


> Philip Glass scored both the Candyman films, and the music only got a CD
release this year because he was apparently ashamed of
> them, but got a lot of requests and changed his mind.
>
> I have some Ifukube classical music and he is quite interesting in that
area as well.  His 1985 Violin Sonata is actually built
> around music from _Kaiju Soshingeki_ (Destroy All Monsters), which is not
surprising, since most composers do this sort of thing if
> they write for both genres.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lang Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Kurosawa and Godzilla
>
>
> > Well, in an odd way Kurosawa did direct Godzilla.  One of the bandits in
> > "Seven Samurai" was played by Haruo Nakajima who was also Godzilla in
most
> > of the films up to the early 70s.
> >
> > I've also heard that composer Akira Ifukube is considered quite the
> > highbrow in Japan and his work on the Godzilla films is seen as somewhat
> > mystifying, sort as if Ned Rorem or Milton Babbitt had scored a slasher
> > film in the US.
> >
> >
> > LT
> >
> > ----
> > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives:
> > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html
>
> ----
> For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives:
> http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html
>
>

----
Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu