12019-02-03T20:32:19+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11The Bat Whispers (1930)plain2019-02-03T20:32:19+00:00Critical Commons19302019-01-29T17:47:31ZVideoRoland WestThe Bat WhispersPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-02-03T21:02:48+00:002.x21 The Bat Whispers2The Bat Whispers (1930)plain2019-02-03T21:03:08+00:00Throughout this sequence, the film develops an extended comparison between the camera and the film’s supervillain, known as the “Bat.” Both have the power to fly through space, to climb walls, to peer through windows, to see without being seen. But the analogy does not humanize the camera so much as it renders it uncanny: like the Bat, the camera is eerily human and nonhuman at the same time.