A collage of 1950s and 1960s Hollywood melodramas filmed from the television set. Recurring suspense motifs and plot clichés let scenes from different films flow together, with gestures by stars like Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly seeming choreographed.
- Directors
- Matthias Müller
- Country
- Germany
- Genre
- Documentary
- Release date
- 1990-08-14
This montage draws from Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, recorded directly off the television. Familiar suspense beats—uneasy sleep, getting up, listening at the door, turning on lights, being startled—allow seamless transitions among films with different protagonists. The actresses' movements appear choreographed for one another, while the soundtrack links passages with sounds imitating genre stereotypes, highlighting the shift from familiar to eerie and women as victims of the voyeuristic gaze.
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