Jack refuses to forget the incident; the evidence is recorded, as in memory, on sound tape; moreover, it is confirmed by the film of the accident taken by the blackmailer who was hiding at the scene. When this film is published as a sequence of still shots in a news magazine, Jack reanimates them so […]

If Blow Up presents modernism’s autonomous self as it is imaged in the pure sign, de Palma’s Blow Out is an investigation of the process of signification itself. While Antonioni presents a grammatical cinema privileging the individual shot and the singular point of view, de Palme gives us a rhetorical one whose formal concerns relates […]