Dear Bill McCarthy, sorry if it has been mentioned and I have overlooked it, but the TV-Set in Sirk's All that Heaven Allows is an amazing and complex commentary on gender, television, family and the tv-set as the substitute for sex. best, andrea braidt Am 04.06.2010 um 16:12 schrieb W. McCarthy: > I wonder if someone would be kind enough to direct me toward any studies -- > or even mere lists of examples -- which have been made of the incorporation > of images of a TV (and/or cinema) screen into a film's narrative -- screen > within a screen, that is. What I have chiefly in mind are complex examples > such as Arturo Ripstein's Así es la vida, Stone's Any Given Sunday, > Cronenberg's Videodrome, Dassin's Dream of Passion, etc., in which the > screen's images are somehow integral to (or make ironic comment upon) the > on-going narrative. In Any Given Sunday, e.g., Wyler's 1959 Ben-Hur plays on > a screen in order to produce an ironic atmosphere in a key scene. However, > any instance, even incidental, in which a TV or film screen is incorporated > would interest me. > > Gratefully, > Bill McCarthy > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > DR. ANDREA B. BRAIDT HOFBURG BATTHYANYSTIEGE ++43 1 4277 48426 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org