An Introduction to Film

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 15 middle-class suburbia) and time of day (dawn). But only after we have determined that the story ope ...

5 7 9 11 6 8 10 12 LOOKING AT NARRATIVE: JOHN FORD’S STAGECOACH 163 ...

this pivotal piece of the movie’s story in relation to the rest of the narrative. As we delve into mate- rial that deals with Ju ...

Ringo’s willingness to risk his life to bring the coach under control as the Apaches attack [9]. the arrival of the cavalry soon ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIESLAST OCURRING A HEAD 1717 Within half a second, another noise joins the mix, and Juno’s head turns in r ...

South their notions of social respectability and sta- tus. Thus, as the film begins in Tonto, they enter the stagecoach in the d ...

Our appreciation of Juno’s situation is enhanced by the way editing connects her reactions to the altered sights and sounds arou ...

There is plenty of irony in these changes. At the end of the trip, the pretentious, overbearing Gate- wood becomes the prisoner, ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 19 13 14 17 18 (^1516) (and our) ears as the camera glides toward her for three and a half very long s ...

the culture of violence in towns such as Lordsburg. In the 1930s, when Stagecoachwas made, President Franklin D. Roosevelt singl ...

20 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES background [20]. She races past Su-Chin without a word. She does not have to say anything. Cinemat ...

Questions for Review What is the difference between narration and narrator? What are the differences between omniscient and res ...

Comparative cultural analysisA comparison of Juno’s treatment of unwanted pregnancy with other films featuring the same subject ...

The Limey(1999). Steven Soderbergh, director. The Lives of Others (2006). Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director. The Longes ...

Down East, which banished its unwed mother and drove her to attempted suicide, to Preston Sturges’s irreverent 1944 comedy The M ...

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DVDIn this tutorial, Dave Monahan discusses cultural analysis and looks closely at the Harry Potterseries. many of these same sc ...

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CHAPTER FIVE Mise-en-Scène Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Tim Burton, director; Dante Ferretti, producti ...

inspire his growing legions of followers. The fic- tional struggle against Voldemort has a trajectory similar to the historic st ...