Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chappaquiddick Incident, Voyeurism
16 Dec 2018
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The movie they are working on is a loose reference to psycho, we"re watching a rough edit. The unedited scream doesn"t match the emotion shes feeling, doesn"t sound like shes afraid, the producer wants a fake scream effect, sound can be edited, all detachable, its easy to manipulate sound. Paranoia about privacy- make sure no one is listening (the couple on the bridge) symbolic image of jack holding the long mic, looking like an assassin with a rifle. The chappaquiddick incident reflects the car crash incident in the movie. Jfk assassination- one photographer captured the moment on camera. Film lecture notes dec 5: voyeurism, obsession, lived experience as commodity (porno for wireheads, subjective camera, spectator identification, male fantasies of unrestrained aggression. What you see on the screen is meant to appear natural. Lenny is still removed from his former self. The real world consequences of the normalization of the content that is on display.
