My apologies to Professor Hochbruck and the Forum for my error in naming him "Wohlbruck." I was just a bit careless and regret my error. Thank you. Joe Alvarez 900 Havel Court Charlotte, NC 28211-4253 Telephone: 704.364.2844 FAX: 704.364.9348 Sent from my iPad > On Aug 25, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Bliss, Donald <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Glen M Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 11:22 AM=0A= > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Life on the Mississippi passage > > I don't know if anyone has made this correction: > > A jump cut in film is not a series of directional shots gradually moving > into a particular location. It is a "bad edit": the picture "jumps" in a > way that looks like a bad splice. As Wikipedia correctly puts it: > "sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that > vary only slightly. . . . gives the effect of jumping forwards in time." > > Jump cut is a meta- technique rooted in the old days when film broke and > was spliced by removing a few frames. > > The technique of moving in on a location through a series of ever-closer > shots is something different, traditional and conventional. > > To see the gradual-closing-in technique, look at the opening of Hitchcock's > "Shadow of a Doubt." To see jump cuts, see the newsreel at the start of > Welles's "Citizen Kane." > > > Glen M. Johnson > Professor and Chair of English > The Catholic University of America > Washington, DC 20064 > 202 319-5488, 202 238-2028 > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Wolfgang Hochbruck < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> ...true -- and the LoM passage might be read as sequential >> jump-cuts alright. But a _really_ cameratic zoom-in is >> difficult to do in literary fiction (and i am still trying >> to figure out HOW Belasco did it at the beginning of _The >> Girl of the Golden West_). It is possible and has been done >> in stream-of-consciousness passages of modern novels, but >> in the 19th c. conventional syntax structures would still >> have blocked that route. >> >> best, >> w >> >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:58:25 -0500 >> Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Are we talking about a zoom-in (a single camera moving >>> in) or a sequence of >>> jump cuts, each one closer to the scene of action? They >>> are not the same. >>> >>> Kevin >>> @ >>> Mac Donnell Rare Books >>> 9307 Glenlake Drive >>> Austin TX 78730 >>> 512-345-4139 >>> Member: ABAA, ILAB >>> ************************* >>> You may browse our books at: >>> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Hal Bush >>> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:56 AM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: Life on the Mississippi passage >>> >>> Yes! Joe & Wolfgang; even more specifically; a zoom-in, >>> establishing shot. >>> >>> Psycho! good one! also thought of: The Birdcage >>> (terrific opening zoom >>> right into the club); Saturday Night Fever (not exactly >>> zoom in); The Dark >>> Knight; (are there others?) >>> >>> Alternatively: there is the amazing scene in Gandhi >>> zooming out from the >>> funeral. >>> >>> -hb >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Wolfgang Hochbruck < >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> ...actually, I feel like i should chime in here because >>> Joe said "Zoom >>>> in" first, and then "establishing shot", and he is >>> right on both counts, >>>> only that narratologically "establishing shot" is the >>> general category, >>>> including also bird's eye, pan(orama) shot etc. The >>> really wild thing >>>> is that what Twain uses here - and what Belasco adapted >>> for the theatre >>>> -- is really a cameratic technique before any camera >>> could do something >>>> like it. Like with a number of other developments, the >>> technology here >>>> followed the writer's imagination. >>>> >>>> best wishes, >>>> w >>>> >>>> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck >>>> Department of English / >>>> Centre for Security and Society >>>> Albert Ludwigs University >>>> 15 Rempart St. >>>> D- 79098 Freiburg >>>> >>>> Am 25.08.2016 08:18, schrieb Joe Alvarez: >>>>> Establishing shot, that's probably the closest one >>> yet. The description >>>> from=3D >>>>> Life on the Mississippi reminds me of the >>> opening--establishing >>>> shot--of Al=3D >>>>> fred Hitchcock's Psycho. >>>>> >>>>> Joe Alvarez >>>>> 900 Havel Court >>>>> Charlotte, NC 28211-4253 >>>>> Telephone: 704.364.2844 >>>>> FAX: 704.364.9348 >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 1:47 AM, Peter Salwen >>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>> What you called the"birds-eye view" might also be >>> called an >>>>>> establishing >>>>>> shot >>>>>> Not by Twain, though. >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>> On Aug 25, 2016 1:27 AM, "Joe Alvarez" >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>>> wrote: >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>> How about "zoom in"? That is what is happening in >>> your description. >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>> Joe Alvarez >>>>>> 900 Havel Court >>>>>> Charlotte, NC 28211-4253 >>>>>> Telephone: 704.364.2844 >>>>>> FAX: 704.364.9348 >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>>> =3D20 >>>>>>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Wesley Britton >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> I have a question about one passage in Life on the >>> Mississippi. I >>>> suspect=3D >>>>>> i=3D3D >>>>>> t >>>>>>> will be very familiar to many of you. >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> It's the passage where we first get a birds-eye >>> view of a place along >>>> the=3D >>>>>>> river before Twain narrows his focus to one town, >>> then one street, >>>>>>> then >>>>>> on=3D3D >>>>>> e >>>>>>> house, then a sleeping man on a porch. >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> Back in grad school, a professor used a term to >>> define this technique >>>> of >>>>>>> moving from the general to the specific, but I >>> can't figure out now >>>> what >>>>>>> term he meant. >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> Dr. Wesley Britton >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> www.drwesleybritton.com >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>>>>>> =3D3D20 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Prof. Harold K. Bush >>> Professor of English >>> 3800 Lindell >>> Saint Louis University >>> St. Louis, MO 63108 >>> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) >>> <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml> >> >> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck >> Dept. of English / Centre for Security and Society >> Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg >> Rempart St. 15 >> D-79098 Freiburg >> Germany >>