An Introduction to Film

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 5 the box office, making it one of the most profitable movies in the history of cinema. Even further o ...

the Polyvision process, which used three synchro- nized cameras (and three synchronized projectors) to put three different actio ...

6 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES 1 2 3 4 5 6 The expressive agility of moviesEven the best seats in the house offer a viewer of a th ...

drawn-out (and, some would say, more enjoyable) experience, one that we may seek out even when we know what happens in a movie. ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 7 movie. Anyone attempting to comprehend a com- plex synthesis must rely on analysis—the act of taking ...

should remain the same, although variations on these elements are frequently used as long as they preserve the integrity of the ...

visceral experiences that art has to offer. The prob- lem is that it also makes it all too easy to take movie meaning for grante ...

the most fantastic chocolate factory in the world. The attraction of science-fiction films such as George Lucas’s Star Wars (197 ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIESLAST OCURRING A HEAD 99 cinematic structures on-screen in order to assem- ble, and thus comprehend, the ...

island of Guadalcanal, it ultimately uses the histor- ical setting as a very personal backdrop for a med- itation on war and its ...

Cultural Invisibility The same commercial instinct that inspires film- makers to use seamless continuity also compels them to fa ...

158 CHAPTER 4 ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE 1 3 5 2 4 6 The cast of characters in Stagecoach[1] Buck Rickabaugh (Andy Devine, left) and ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 11 may not be as conscious of is the way their protag- onist(main character) reinforces our culture’s ...

most active between 1881 and 1886 in their encoun- ters with the U. S. Army, we can locate the action sometime in this period. H ...

makes on the basis of the explicit meanings available on the surface of the movie. To get a sense of the difference between thes ...

announce itself directly, not through a fragile woman’s per ception), and diegesis (particularly the characterization and explic ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 13 cannot be taken for granted simply because it is by definition obvious. Although explicit meaning i ...

leaves them, the interior of the stagecoach is cramped and uncomfortable, and there are no fresh horses at the way station. In a ...

expectations of del Toro’s films would inform an analy- sis of the elements common to the filmmaker’s seem- ingly schizophrenic ...

“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.” A song about remembering the past, perhaps with regret or loss, it is closely associated wit ...