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This writer hailed the image of the tank moving down the street in The Silence as the film’s most striking moment, but criticized the “foolish thought” that it was a phallic symbol. This critic praised film as having “a vocabulary (15[1])of forms,” unlike literature, and named cinema as the “most alive” art form for “the latitude it gives for making mistakes in it and still being good,” citing Griffith and (*) Bergman as directors whose films are visually beautiful despite their pseudo-intellectual stories. In that essay, this writer urged readers to resist the temptation to interpret Last Year in Marienbad, and in a different essay noted a sensibility present in the tone (-5[1])of The Maltese Falcon but not in the films of Hitchcock. For 10 points, name this film (10[1])critic and thinker who also identified Mae West and Japanese sci-fi films as examples of the title phenomenon in her essay “Notes on ‘Camp.’” (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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