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 > > ---- > To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]