A Room Nobody Is Allowed to Hear: On Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957)
Six Dollars and Two Blocks About twenty-seven minutes into 12 Angry Men, a man who has been sitting quietly at the far end
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In the Same Orbit as the Earth: “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960)
“I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960) puts the survivors of a crash down in a desert ninety-seven
No One Said Earth: Third from the Sun, The Twilight Zone
The withheld world of “Third from the Sun” Four adults are playing cards. The table is glass, and for a moment the camera is
The Shape of Someone’s Waiting: Faces, Histories, and “The Four of Us Are Dying” (The Twilight Zone, 1960)
Three-Eighty a Night A man stands at the mirror of a rented room and works his jaw. He is not shaving and he is
Second Person: On The Twilight Zone, “What You Need” (CBS, 25 December 1959)
A man in a bathrobe comes out onto the pavement to look at the accident. He has a woman with him, and the two
Where the Floor Is: Cary Grant and the Art of Falling
The Trick In the playroom at the top of the Seton house in Holiday (1938), Cary Grant turns a back somersault. He is playing
The Courtyard of the Visible: Seeing, Guilt, and the Architecture of Desire in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window
The film begins by quoting the theater and then quietly falsifying the quotation.Three bamboo blinds ascend over the window. They do not rise together;
Whoever Is Left: On “And When the Sky Was Opened” (The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 11; CBS, December 11, 1959)
The first thing the broadcast shows is a covering. Before any face, before a name spoken by someone who could later be asked
