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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 of The Maltese Falcon but not in the films of Hitchcock. For 10 points, name this film 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.’” ■END■

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