Hi Damian. I appreciated the description 'asyndetic' (omission of conjunction) re omitted showing of contents of a photo album in Cukor's KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1942). A likely parallel instance leaps to mind from Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960) where Lila (Vera Miles) is inspecting the contents of Norman's bedroom and comes upon a bound volume which she opens and then closes. Her expression remains blank (a la the Kuleshov experiment). But from Robert Bloch's novel we know that the book contains images that are 'almost clinically pornographic' (I think that's Bloch's exact phrase, though I can't find my copy of the novel to check). For Hitchcock, the asyndetic method here was a way to beat censorship while yet suggesting the 'unspeakable' or anyway 'unsayable' (I'm not suggesting that Hitchcock was making a judgement).
Hope that helps.
- KM
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