An Introduction to Film

people; his disturbed, unresponsive wife, Barbara (Allison Janney); and their teenage son, Ricky (Wes Bentley), who is part stud ...

Richardson and that attempted to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind. In Meshes, Deren is both the creative ...

china service. Ricky pretends that he buys his state-of-the-art audio and video equipment with money earned from a job working f ...

Documentary/narrative fusionLarry Charles’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan( ...

Once he has quit his job, Lester wears jeans when he is relaxing and next to nothing when he is work- ing out with weights in hi ...

Film-type fusionPerhaps the film that best exemplifies the fusion of narrative, documentary, and experimental film types is Will ...

220 CHAPTER 5 MISE-EN-SCÈNE 1 3 2 4 5 Different settings in American Beautyprovoke different behaviors from different characters ...

subcategories. These distinctions are both useful and inevitable. Any art form practiced by ambi- tious innovators and consumed ...

And, of course, academic scholars are not the only movie lovers who find it useful to categorize films by genre. Genre has a sig ...

Analyzing Mise-en-Scène This chapter has introduced the major elements that together form any film’s mise-en-scène. You should n ...

in a particular genre; piggyback on the success of a previous genre hit; and even recycle props, sets, costumes, and digital bac ...

Questions for Review What is the literal meaning of the phrase mise-en-scène? What do we mean by this phrase more generally whe ...

Breathless (1960) could be considered film noir; Woody Allen’s Annie Hall(1977) is a romantic com- edy; John Ford’s The Searcher ...

Eyes Wide Shut(1999). Stanley Kubrick, director. Far from Heaven(2002). Todd Haynes, director. Forrest Gump(1994). Robert Zemeck ...

Theme A movie’s themeis a unifying idea that the film expresses through its narrative or imagery. Not every genre is united by a ...

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Ironically, science-fiction films use the latest high-tech special effects to tell stories that warn against the dehumanizing da ...

CHAPTER SIX Cinematography The Help (2011). Tate Taylor, director; Stephen Goldblatt, cinematographer. ...

Stars Even the actors who star in genre movies factor into how the genre is classified, analyzed, and received by audiences. In ...

226 CHAPTER 6 CINEMATOGRAPHY story, mise-en-scène, and acting do. The cinemato - grapher (also known as the director of photogra ...