12019-01-24T18:56:55+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11Sunrise (1927)plain2019-01-24T18:56:55+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3bThe unpredictable swaying of the trolley expresses the Wife’s terrified confusion about her husband’s newly revealed capacity for violence and betrayal. At the same time, the relentless forward progression comments on the inevitability of modernity. The protagonists must stand by passively while the background changes from the countryside to the city, a change in landscape that will render their lifestyle obsolete.
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12018-12-05T01:29:40+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3bChapter One: American Cinema, German AnglesPatrick Keating8Chapter on silent-era camera movementplain542019-02-03T20:24:52+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b