Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past

Published: Jan. 24, 2014, 12:36 p.m.

b"Some remarks on Walter Benjamin's view of aura, and its disappearance in the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. \\xa0Its return thematized in the maguffin. \\xa0Maguffin defined, with examples, from Pulp Fiction, Kiss Me Deadly,\\xa0MI: 3, etc. \\xa0Women as maguffins, in La Jet\\xe9e and a host of other films. \\xa0Then a close viewing of the first\\xa0third of Out of the Past. \\xa0Continuities and discontinuities. \\xa0(NB: Marsellus, not Marcus, as I misspoke.)"