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notes 1. William Butler yeats, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul,” in The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (New york: Macmillan, 1956), 232. 2. D. H. Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters,” in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers (1936), edited by Edward McDonald (New york: Viking, 1968), 535. 3. yeats, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul,” 231. 4. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (Baltimore: Penquin, 1936), 284. 5. Little Big Man was released in the United States on December 23, 1970. 6. The actual running time is 139 minutes. Richard Boone does not appear in the film. 7. See Penn’s remarks at the beginning of the interview “Arthur Penn in Canada.” 8. Some of these scenes are included in the DVD version (Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2004) of the film. Scene 1 is present, as is scene 2, although the foreman’s wife does not show but instead only mentions that she cuts out the society page pictures of Jake’s wife. In scene 6 such bits of business are indeed there in the scene, but there may have been others to which Wood refers here as well. Scenes 9 and 10 are there as is 11, but the scene contains no shots of Lester’s family. In scene 12 there are only two actions—the Calders leaving and Anna outside Val’s house, leaving over the closing credits as Wood notes. Scenes 4–5 and 7–8 are absent. 9. Irving Penn, Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words (New york: Simon and Schuster, 1960). 238 notes 10. William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, rev. edition, edited by David V. Erdman (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982), 45. 11. E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A Study of the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (New york: Pantheon/Bollingen Foundation, 1960), 64. 12. Ibid., 78. 13. Ibid., 81. 14. Ibid., 80–81. 15. Ibid., 82, 88. 16. For a more comprehensive treatment, see Andrew Britton’s analysis of Mandingo in Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton, edited by Barry Keith Grant (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009), 252–72. The essay originally appeared in Movie 22 (Spring 1976): 1–22. 17. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 88. 18. Roland Barthes, “Myth Today,” in Mythologies, translated and edited by Annette Lavers (New york: Hill and Wang, 1972), 116. ...

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