Femmes Fatales, Film Noir, and Freshmen (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 18, 2011
The following post is adapted from a conference paper I presented at the Popular Culture Association in the South meeting in 2008. I'm posting it this week as part of the film noir blogathon, For the Love of Film (Noir), which is raising funds to help the Film Noir Foundation.
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LEGO noir: The Maltese Falcon (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 18, 2011
Even LEGO people love film noir. Here's Sam Spade to prove it! I'm trying to learn how to take photos of my LEGO vignettes using noir lighting and shadows. These are inspired by publicity stills of Humphrey Bogart for The Maltese Falcon (1941). I wish I had time to build elaborate sets for my photo read more
LEGO Noir: Double Indemnity (1944) (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 18, 2011
I'm still playing with shadows and camera angles for my LEGO shoots. This time it's scenes from Double Indemnity (1944), with Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. I wanted to do something with a good femme fatale, and it's hard to beat Stanwyck as scheming Phyllis Dietrichson. O read more
January film roster, 2011 (4)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 14, 2011
I keep a record of every movie I watch; I started it when I first began writing for Examiner.com, and I have now been keeping track for almost two years. It's an interesting document - to me, anyway - because it reveals certain trends in my film viewing. It also helps me remember what I have seen; s read more
January film roster, 2011 (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 14, 2011
I keep a record of every movie I watch; I started it when I first began writing for Examiner.com, and I have now been keeping track for almost two years. It's an interesting document - to me, anyway - because it reveals certain trends in my film viewing. It also helps me remember what I have seen; s read more
Die Toten Reiten Schnell (4)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2011
"The dead ride fast" - Stoker quoted an earlier work for this line from Dracula, but it still makes one of the novel's most haunting sentiments. At the very end of the 19th century Gothic timeline, Stoker created a story that would dominate what Gothic came to mean for the 20th century (and arguably read more
Die Toten Reiten Schnell (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2011
"The dead ride fast" - Stoker quoted an earlier work for this line from Dracula, but it still makes one of the novel's most haunting sentiments. At the very end of the 19th century Gothic timeline, Stoker created a story that would dominate what Gothic came to mean for the 20th century (and arguably read more
Gothic Thoughts, continued (4)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 11, 2011
Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval nightmare.
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Gothic Thoughts, continued (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 11, 2011
Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval nightmare.
Two read more
Gothic Thoughts, continued (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 11, 2011
Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval nightmare.
Two read more
Laird Cregar (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 10, 2011
Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill read more
Laird Cregar (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 10, 2011
Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill read more
Laird Cregar (2)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 10, 2011
Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill read more
Good grief, not another blog! (4)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student. If anyone bey read more
From The Castle of Otranto to Scooby Doo (4)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel as the point of o read more
Good grief, not another blog! (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student. If anyone bey read more
From The Castle of Otranto to Scooby Doo (1)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel as the point of o read more
Good grief, not another blog! (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student. If anyone bey read more
From The Castle of Otranto to Scooby Doo (3)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 7, 2011
So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel as the point of o read more