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Coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing doom
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Coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing doom
Monday 29 June 2020, 03:31 PM
Since Garbo in Camille (1936) the onscreen cough has been a bad omen
Australia academic Simon Weaving finds much can be read into a cough on screen but in a time of COVID is it
time to lay this old trope to rest?
Movie characters – like Greek heroes – are typically faster, stronger, braver and better looking than those of us in the audience who stare on in admi
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