An Introduction to Film

1 2 3 Multigenre stardom With striking performances in Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married(1986) and Joel and Ethan Coe ...

THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY 227 Imagination is represented by the director, who in turn is heir to the ideas of the scriptwriter ...

initial victims (such as the thugs responsible for the protagonist’s initial humiliation) are usually por- trayed as deserving o ...

artists entrusted with them. “You will accomplish much more,” advises Gregg Toland—the cinematog- rapher famous for such classic ...

portrayals were among the most brutal in cinema history—was equally beloved as a star of happy-go- lucky musicals.) Other notabl ...

image appear the way it does. These properties include the film stock, lighting, and lenses. By employing variations of each pro ...

outlook. Like the eggs for which they are named, the hard-boiled characters in film noir have a tough interior beneath brittle s ...

productions use either 16mm or 35mm. Generally, the wider the gauge, the more expensive the film and, all other factors being eq ...

“deadly woman”) role cast women as seductive, autonomous, and deceptive predators who use men for their own means. As a rule, th ...

original filmmakers to be seen in black and white. The unimpressive results were limited by the state of computer graphics at th ...

Other notable film-noir movies include The Mal- tese Falcon (1941; director: John Huston); Laura (1944; director: Otto Preminger ...

between those who are devout Christians (dressed most often in white or gray costumes) and those nonbelievers who have only doub ...

unconscious, concerns are at the root of a great deal of artistic expression. Science-inspired anxiety is behind the defining th ...

climactic game in which the figure of Death (in a black cowl) plays with black pieces, while the Knight, who has returned from t ...

ruins. In movies like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), the setting suggests a combination of both. Of course, outer space is ...

sophisticated, these distinctions held together the narratives of countless films in diverse genres. After tonality, the next th ...

Gilliam); Gattaca(1997; director: Andrew Niccol); Starship Troopers(1997; director: Paul Verhoeven); The Iron Giant(1999; direct ...

the other is so far removed from normalcy, the protagonist may reject her own suspicions before she experiences the other more d ...

waves on our eyes and optical nervous system, meaning that we perceive these different wave- lengths of energy as different colo ...

world”—a hyperordinary place, usually a small town threatened by invasion of the other. This set- ting casts the protagonist as ...