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