Looking at Attention
3 Quarks Daily • 2/23/2026
Summary
D. Graham Burnett discusses the depiction of intense gazes in filmmaking at The Paris Review. He references early examples such as Dziga Vertov’s interwar metacinema and D. W. Griffith’s silent classic, Those Awful Hats (1909).
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