Packet 7: Tossup 1

This author forced a studio to apologize after a maid who poisons the four leads was added to the plot of the 1959 film Odd Obsession, which adopts his novel told via diary entries. An obsessive fan who makes 30 dolls of an actress kills her director husband in this author’s story “Mr. Bluemound.” (15[1])A man uses Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” to decipher a murder plot he overhears in a cinema (-5[1])in this author’s novel The Devils in Daylight. Jonathan Rosenbaum championed a director who adapted this author’s stories about a human-faced spider tattoo and a lesbian affair between (-5[1])two art students. (15[1]-5[1])An essay by this author of The (*) Key (10[1])laments (10[1])his native cinema’s neglect of domestic-made (10[1])lighting tools. This author created a cinephile who has his “modern girl” lover imitate Mary Pickford. Kon (10[1])Ichikawa’s (10[1])film of a novel by this author makes explicit that the title family’s business is kimono-making. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of “In Praise of Shadows,” Naomi, and (10[1])The Makioka Sisters. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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