YEAR: 2010
DIRECTOR: Debra Granik
PINBALL MODEL(S): unknown
GAME LOCATION: Bar/Tavern
NOTES: Winter's Bone offers a (fictionalized) glimpse into an otherwise impermeable subculture; one marked by its fierce defense of the liberties of isolation. If home and family provide the framework for this ideal, then this tavern setting is a more neutrally coded (certainly non-domestic) space. As part of the mise-en-scene, the pinball machine we see here acts as visual cue in establishing the setting, but it is also a culturally-charged object; never fully disengaged from its historical role as an object of both vice and criminality.
