Getting lost in the form: on vertigo and dissolution
Getting lost in the form: on vertigo and dissolution
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Amongst the many crackpot theories of The Shining put forward in Rodney Ascher‘s Room 237 (2012) is the observation that a lap dissolve, which briefly merges a pile of luggage with a group of tourists, is not just a formal, compositional choice, but a substantive reference to the Holocaust. Elsewhere, Room 237 cites one of Kubrick’s long dissolves in which a janitor in an interior shot briefly appears to be sweeping the forest in an exterior shot instead of the hotel floor. That dissolve also includes a pan in which the triangular form of a stepladder appears to position itself over a matching architectural feature of the hotel, itself one of the many continuity anomalies of the film.
Hon, Gordon
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2014
Hon, Gordon
ca14398f-3e52-46ba-b0ed-35a52d7b8225
Hon, Gordon
(2014)
Getting lost in the form: on vertigo and dissolution.
The Cine-Files, Fall 2014 (7).
Abstract
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Amongst the many crackpot theories of The Shining put forward in Rodney Ascher‘s Room 237 (2012) is the observation that a lap dissolve, which briefly merges a pile of luggage with a group of tourists, is not just a formal, compositional choice, but a substantive reference to the Holocaust. Elsewhere, Room 237 cites one of Kubrick’s long dissolves in which a janitor in an interior shot briefly appears to be sweeping the forest in an exterior shot instead of the hotel floor. That dissolve also includes a pan in which the triangular form of a stepladder appears to position itself over a matching architectural feature of the hotel, itself one of the many continuity anomalies of the film.
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Getting lost in the form on vertigo and dissolution
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e-pub ahead of print date: 1 October 2014
Published date: 2014
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The video essay was also screened along with a paper at Moving Objects: Film, Relation,Change. A one-day conference organized by BRAKC and BIMI:
The Moving Image and Object Relations Psychoanalysis
at Birkbeck Cinema,
Birkbeck College, London University
17 January, 2014
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Graphics, Fine Art & Media
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410058
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