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Название: Camera Phone

Автор: Brooke Biaz

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Триллеры

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isbn: 9781602358737

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      by the same author

      Swallowing Film: Short Film Fiction

      Black Cat, Green Field

      Teaching Creative Writing

      Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (with A. Moor)

      Small Maps of the World

      Moon Dance

      camera phone

      brooke biaz

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621

      Characters, Names, Places, Recipes and Cocktails contained in this book are not meant to be actual Persons or Things and should not be considered, approached, or treated, as such.

      © 2010 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Biaz, Brooke.

       Camera phone / Brooke Biaz.

       p. cm.

       ISBN 978-1-60235-162-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-163-9 (adobe ebook)

       I. Title.

       PR9619.3.H324C36 2010

       823’.914--dc22

       2009049118

      Printed on acid-free paper.

      Cover image:

      Cover design by David Blakesley

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      contents

       part 1

       one

       Being There

       two

       Beauty and the Beast

       three

       Pulp Fiction

       part 2

       one

       Donnie Brasco

       two

       Godzilla

       three

       A Life Less Ordinary

       four

       Dark City

       five

       Groundhog Day

       acknowledgments

       about the author

      part 1

      There were years when I went to the cinema almost every day and maybe even twice a day . . . It was a time when cinema became the world to me. A different world from the one around me, but my feeling was that only what I saw on the screen possessed the properties required of a world, the fullness, the necessity, the coherence, while away from the screen were only heterogeneous elements lumped together at random, the materials of life, mine, which seemed to me utterly formless.

      Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni

      Capture the action. . . . Video clips are ideal for those unexpected great moments that happen when you’re out there, enjoying life.

      Sony Ericsson, The K770i Cyber-shot™ phone

      one

      Being There

      1979, 130m

      Comedy, PG-13

      Lorimar (U.S.)

      1

      Man, there is Karen. Close-up. Tight as you like. Humping her fist like a seahorse riding a warm current. Up and down she goes, her head thrown back in and out of frame. This is high-key, off-balanced, improv and it’s Expressionist, I guess. Cinema vérité. My camera phone loves her. It absolutely does. It’s like watching Rogers with Astaire, Kahn with Hank, Lassie with Joey. She sweeps away a cobweb which has floated down from the basketball hoop above the doorjamb. To which I say: “Nice. Real nice. Go on.” I bounce over the duvet to catch her eyes which, momentarily but significantly, pause on me. She is Kim Basinger in Nadine, only smarter, of course. For a moment I have what is certainly eye-contact, an address to my phone, but in Karen’s body not in any words. Then she’s away again, doing her thing. Moonlight СКАЧАТЬ