Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Following up on last year's Brookings (?) report on the reversal of suburbanization, here is a piece from the Gawker with links to other reports on demographic changes occuring in cities and suburbs.

http://gawker.com/5816205/old-people-are-clogging-up-the-suburbs

Monday, June 27, 2011


Short piece on John Conn's photographs of NYC subway from early 1980s in Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2009/06/10/john-conn-s-new-york-subway-photos.html

See also: Bruce Davidson, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz


Introduction could use The Out-of-Towners and Little Murders, two films which demonstrate external and internal views of the city at the beginning of the 1970s.
Contemporary interview with Gordon Willis in The Boston Globe by Mark Feeny January 14 2007. Conrad Hall calls Willis "The Prince of Darkness."

Chapter 1 should focus more on Klute and the status of noir in the early 1970s. Quote Naremore on the problems and possibilities of colorized noir. Note Straw's account of the mulitplicity of noir-like tags: film-blanc, film-gris, etc. Straw's development of tabloid crime aesthetic based on true crime digest covers that feature place-less b&w crime scenes in broad daylight (as opposed to hi-contrast, or Wee Gee-like crime scenes) could be drawn into parallel with "figures in windows" aesthetic. Perhaps also verite could be mentioned here as THE b&w moving image of the 1960s. Color would be associated with technicolor/H-wood artifice. Also ref. opening essay to recent Neo-Noir anthology.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Excellent post about NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER at Obscure One-Sheet:


http://knifeinthehead.blogspot.com/2011/05/not-so-obscure-tv-spot-but-still-mia-on.html

Also, can't forget about Homebodies by Larry Yust (who also did Trick Baby), from 1974.