An Introduction to Film

supernatural worlds and events that have little or nothing in common with our actual experiences. For example, Victor Fleming’s ...

Hans Dreier, whose design career includes such memorable achievements as Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931) and Bi ...

In Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), people, places, and things look, sound, and move in ways that are believable and even convin ...

Lord of the Ringstrilogy, 2001–3), Gemma Jackson (Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland, 2004), Sarah Greenwood (Joe Wright’s Atoneme ...

CINEMATIC LANGUAGE 61 language creates meaning: how close-ups have the power to change our proximity to a character or low camer ...

Questions for Review How and why do we differentiate between form and content in a movie, and why are they relevant to one anot ...

Art direction and design are very important ele- ments in the films of the three Japanese directors best known in the West: Akir ...

Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter American Beauty(1999). Sam Mendes, director. Atonement(2007). Joe Wright, direct ...

popular and hugely successful science-fiction and fantasy movies, the majority of today’s stories involve recognizable people we ...

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varied that it creates a desirable ambiguity, one in which viewers are required to reach their own con- clusions about the moral ...

CHAPTER THREE Types of Movies True Grit (2010). Joel and Ethan Coen, directors. ...

where he is killed. At other times, the scene begins with the murderer in one corner of the frame, so that we see what he’s seei ...

66 CHAPTER 3TYPES OF MOVIES When it comes to cinema, nothing is absolute. In the world of movies, a narrative might be a type of ...

what we see within a rectangular border, generally wider than it is high. Because it shapes the image in a configuration that do ...

telling is a complicated business, especially when one is relating a multifaceted story involving multi- ple characters and conf ...

206 CHAPTER 5 MISE-EN-SCÈNE 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 ...

them, then by teaching them to take their own pho- tographs. She works to convince the sex workers to allow her greater access t ...

hero, Earp, arrives in the lawless town, becomes the sheriff, establishes civic order, and then departs for his own personal rea ...

Causal minimalismA fiction movie need not have a traditional goal-driven plot to be considered narrative. Richard Linklater’s Sl ...