My American Uncle Excerpt 10: The dénouement; the slum neighborhood in New York City (1’58”)
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My American Uncle Excerpt 10: The dénouement; the slum neighborhood in New York City (1’58”)
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| 1. | How is this sequence typical of Resnais’s personal filming style? |
| 2. | Why, in your opinion, does Resnais use this devastated neighborhood as the setting for his “epilogue”? |
| 3. | What do we see on the section of wall at the beginning of the last series of shots? What two themes are brought together here? |
| 4. | How is the style of this last series of shots different from the style of the shots at the beginning of this sequence? Describe Resnais’s technique here (type and size of the shots). |
| 5. | How do you interpret the last shot of the film? Is there a relationship between this shot and the scientific and filmic discourses? |