An Introduction to Film

xv Students in an introductory film course who read Looking at Moviescarefully and take full advantage of the materials surround ...

Every event implied by the previous description, including every line of code Mark must write, every gathering happening across ...

“Screening Checklists” Each chapter ends with an “Analyzing” section that includes a “Screening Checklist” feature. This series ...

when they know in advance that the movie is not in English. Unfortunately, this bias means that many great movies never reach au ...

students to look at elements of the film more ana- lytically. These captions expand on the in-text pres- entation and reinforce ...

right—have been made from Shakespeare’s plays, and producers continue to find imaginative ways of bringing other literary classi ...

Test Bank Completely rewritten for this edition, each chapter of the test bank includes a “concept map,” 60– multiple-choice and ...

story order, which necessarily flows chronologi- cally (as does life), plot order can be manipulated so that events are presente ...

Acknowledgments Writing a book seems very much at times like the collaborative effort involved in making a movie. In writing thi ...

By contrast, Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible (2002; screenwriter: Noé), which takes place within the span of one day, begins with an a ...

(University of Central Florida), Mildred Lewis (Chapman University), Matthew Sewell (Minnesota State University), Michael Stinso ...

experience and remember what we have done, and literally requires us to put the pieces of the puzzle together. If you have the t ...

CHAPTER ONE Looking at Movies Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). David Yales, director. ...

modus’s guards—creates subordinate events. Her love surfaces at key moments, troubling and tempt- ing Maximus; but because other ...

2 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES Unless you were raised by wolves—and possibly even if you were—you have likely devoted thou- sands ...

plot duration. We can generally characterize that relationship in one of three ways: (1) in a summary relationship, screen durat ...

WHAT IS A MOVIE? 3 about the artist, society, or industry that created it. Surely any art form with that kind of influence and i ...

hypothetical movie; the screen duration of this scene is 10 minutes, but the implied duration of the plot event is 4 hours. In T ...

A conventional motion picture is essentially one very long strip of film stock. This linear quality makes movies perfectly suite ...

most dazzling technical innovations in film history. The legendary French director’s handling of time, speed, and movement build ...