Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palma (Dressed to Kill) and John Carpenter (Christine), were toiling in the fetid cellar of shock tactics; they took their cue from the gore and funereal fun of Psycho, not the narrative crisscrossing of Strangers on a Train. De Palma and Carpenter were only serving their audience. The music- video generation was disinclined to track the intricacies of a well-made plot. Those tame pleasures were best left to TV sleuths and their fogy fans...
...Rubes) is an elderly psychiatrist; Mr. Murray (Roddy McDowall) is his aide-de-camp in blackmailing. As part of their scheme to defraud a wealthy ( woman, they hire an actress, Katie McGovern (Mary Steenburgen), to impersonate the woman's dead sister. Katie doesn't realize she is taping a video ransom note. Ever conscientious, she tells her sly captors, "I'm gonna take a beat after the line 'There was blood everywhere...
...pretty sure some of the techniques had not yet been used extensively at Harvard in the VES Department," Lindauer said. He described the time he spent on the video as "a very educational period. I worked over 16 hours a day for any entire month...
...Lindauer said the skills he learned in Visual and Environmental Studies courses had been a great help in making the video. He cited courses taught by Dennis Pies, whom he said used to be a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Steven Eagle, a former Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, as particularly applicable to his video work...
Lindauer said that he collaborated with Eagle on certain limited portions of the video that will accompany the Newcity Rockers' remake of "Black Dog," which was originally written and performed by Led Zeppelin...