There¹s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you
will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets
reassembled ­ something like that.  Pretty vague, but at the same time, I¹m
sure someone will know of what I speak.


On 12/14/12 1:49 PM, "David Dvorchak" <da...@as220.org> wrote:

> Laurel and Hardy is "Two Tars"
> 
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuck...@northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>> The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies
>> in Hollywood.
>> 
>> There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment)
>> which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute.
>> 
>> Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively
>> inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile
>> bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned.
>> 
>> Chuck Kleinhans
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote:
>> 
>>> >
>>> > Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical
>>> studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined
>>> in cinema.  To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films
>>> that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that
>>> might also dovetail themes that might be explored.
>>> >
>>> > Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text
>>> titled Car Fetish.
>>> >
>>> > OK, let's hear what ya got!
>>> > best,
>> 
>> 
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