From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 23:57:20 PST
There is some daisy chaining in "Tampopo."
There is a B&W Hollywood film from the 30s that follows a suit coat,
or maybe it's a tux. Can't remember, it's been a long time since I saw
it.
Also, isn't there a film about a dollar, or maybe $20 bill, being
passed around, made in the 80s, or late 90s? I never saw it, but it
was on cable a lot a few years back.
Ken B.
Quoting James Cole <email suppressed>:
> The most obvious example in literature probably being Delillo's Underworld,
> which follows the (in reality lost) "Shot Heard Round the World" homerun
> ball for about 60 years and sort of adheres to David's shit-happens
> unpredictablity of the urban experience explination.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Tetzlaff <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> Physical passing of people walking became a common transition device in
>> 'ensemble' television dramas set in institutional contexts, starting with
>> 'Hill Street Blues' and continuing through 'St. Elsewhere' and 'ER'.
>> Multiple, parallel plot lines connect and switch without edits: the camera
>> follows two characters walking down the hall, one drops a narratively
>> unimportant clipboard off at a desk, the camera stays with the clipboard,
>> another character picks it up, the camera follows him into another room
>> where he interrupts a superior to ask a seemingly innocuous question. He
>> leaves and the camera stays with the superior, who we realize in the midst
>> of some crisis or other...
>>
>> I would say that this is generally a trope of the random-ness and
>> 'shit-happens' unpredictability of the urban experience of what the
>> Ehrenreichs refer to as the 'PMC' (professional-managerial class), but
>> certainly could be used in other thematics...
>>
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