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Joelle's Too Much Fun at Molly Notkin's party (pp. 231–233)

quote

‘—thing opens tight on Remington in a hideous grandfatherly flannel suit, b & w, straight full-frontal shot in this grainy b & w stuff Bouvier taught him to manipulate the f-stop to mimic that horrid old Super 8, straight full-frontal, staring past the camera, no attempt to disguise he’s reading off a prompter, monotone and all […] at which point he aims his thumb and finger at his own temple at which point his TA doubles the focal-length so there’s this giant—’ […] ‘Who shot The Incision? Who did the cinematography on The Incision?’

Context

The overheard party-voice collage: a room of film-cartridge scholars talking technique — f-stops, focal lengths, cinematography credits — while the deadliest piece of cinematography ever made hangs unmade in the same conversation. Texture for how saturated Joelle's academic world is in apparatus-talk.

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