492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
The History of Literature
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The Cinema, Kind of Mathogra
In Weimar film scholarship, there's been a turn towards thinking about genre film as like the majority of what was watched. So probably some comedies, some Westerns, some all kinds of what we might now think of as genre movies. I love this fairground farce of light, more hopelessly with every scene. Cunning deceits revealed with ease by spies concealed across the screen. Their sewing symbolizes good. A glass of wine must stand for sin. The keenest eye will find no trace of mother's likeness to her kin. Letters are scrawled in dead of night, danger alarm the pen just flies across the page,. All the words are perfect, flawless shape and size
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