An Introduction to Film

engaged with planning, capturing, selecting, and arranging footage tend to create sequences that grow logically in some way. The ...

more important than the characters. The highly melodramatic story concerns a young ballet dancer, Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), ...

storytelling: documentary film is more concerned with the recording of reality, the education of view- ers, or the presentation ...

Story’s lack of movement when compared to the frenetic movement in, say, Yimou Zhang’s Hero (2002; production designers: Tingxia ...

However, no one who watches Nanookcould argue that the film’s portrayal of the Inuit and their nomadic northern lifestyle is a c ...

can suggest the nature and complexity of whatever relationship may exist between them, and thus their placement and proximity ar ...

fied image of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers for the consumption of non-German audiences before World War II. Over a centur ...

realized mise-en-scène plays a crucial role in creat- ing the illusion of naturalness that encourages our enjoyment of movies as ...

walk the picket lines, and hold their families and communities together. While direct cinema can help reveal a subject in profou ...

editing software iMovie and openly identified it as the “Ken Burns Effect.” Many documentaries investigate events that happened ...

the Monster in a windmill that they set afire. Bur- ton similarly places the spectacular climax of his film in an ominous windmi ...

defy categorization and convention. For starters, it’s helpful to think of experimental cinema as that which pushes the boundari ...

movie storyboards) that had both a moral and a satirical message. Rowlandson created an instantly recognizable gallery of social ...

ings, they resist the kind of accessible and universal meaning found in conventional narrative and documentary films.^1 Because ...

with nightmares.”^18 Sleepy Hollowis clearly a closed film that depicts a singular, self-enclosed world in which almost everyone ...

25 segments unfold, the offscreen girl narrator shifts from mythological accounts of paternal rela- tionships to third-person ac ...

clip from a movie, we can only generalize in dis- cussing them in a movie as stylistically rich as Sleepy Hollow. Throughout, ho ...

involving experience than most conventional nar - rative or documentary treatments of similar sub- ject matter. While Wavelength ...

The film opens with a moving aerial shot that establishes the classic suburban scene of tree-lined streets in an upper-middle-cl ...

Rearranged footageA sequence in Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America(1992) presents successive images o ...