Kategori: 169 Seconds
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169 Seconds: Improbable Dialogism or the Art of Flying
169 SECONDS. This installment of 169 Seconds by Barbara Zecchi deconstructs the controversial ending of Scott and Khouri’s Thelma and Louise by putting it into an improbable intertextual dialogue with two other unrelated films—namely Vittorio De Sica’s Miracolo a Milano (1951) and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982).
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169 Seconds: Parasite – Props at the Periphery of Perception
169 SECONDS. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film that pays obsessive attention to its mise-en-scène. In this installment of 169 Seconds, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard explores how the film’s props subtly assist in characterizing the social status of the characters by creating a distinct opposition between global and local brands.
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169 Seconds: Titane
169 SECONDS. Jan Oxholm analyserer det tragiske anslag i Guldpalme-vinderen, Titane (2021), som viser en far, der ikke kan nå sin datter. Eller er det i virkeligheden datteren, som ikke kan nå sin far?
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169 Seconds: Double Nostalgia in The Queen’s Gambit
169 SECONDS. Jaap Kooijman’s audiovisual essay “Double Nostalgia in The Queen’s Gambit” focuses on one specific montage sequence in the 2020 Netflix series, which uses Shocking Blue’s 1969 song “Venus” as soundtrack. The use of the song and its music video not only expresses the emotional state of the protagonist, but also raises questions about watching music television as a cultural practice.
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169 Seconds: Lust for Life
169 SECONDS. Thomas Vinterberg’s latest work, Another Round (2020), deals with the Danish drinking culture. Mads Mikkelsen plays a high school teacher who has lost his lust for life. The question is whether he is flying or falling in the last shot of the film? In this third edition of the 169 Seconds audiovisual format, Jan Oxholm analyzes the final scene and the dramatic use of the freeze frame technique.
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169 Seconds: Previously on Perry Mason
169 SECONDS. In the second edition of our audiovisual format 169 Seconds, Henrik Højer analyzes a scene from the last episode of HBO’s Perry Mason. A scene that never takes place at the diegetic level but which nevertheless serves two important purposes in the context of the series.
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169 Seconds: Mastering Dialogue – American Crime
169 SECONDS. In the first example of our new audiovisual format, 169 Seconds, Andreas Halskov presents a condensed analysis of the alternative and experimental dialogues in American Crime (ABC, 2015-2017).