An Introduction to Film

Do the Right Thing(1989). Spike Lee, director. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964). Stanl ...

most dazzling technical innovations in film history. The legendary French director’s handling of time, speed, and movement build ...

CHAPTER SEVEN Acting The King’s Speech (2010). Tom Hooper, director. Pictured: Colin Firth. ...

the Polyvision process, which used three synchro- nized cameras (and three synchronized projectors) to put three different actio ...

288 CHAPTER 7ACTING the elements that’s often left out when people talk theoretically about the movies. They forget it’s the hum ...

drawn-out (and, some would say, more enjoyable) experience, one that we may seek out even when we know what happens in a movie. ...

WHAT IS ACTING? 289 other cinematic techniques, movie actors always come closer to the audience, and appear larger, than actors ...

should remain the same, although variations on these elements are frequently used as long as they preserve the integrity of the ...

around just outside the camera’s range, doing their jobs but also watching and listening to everything the actors do. Some of th ...

the most fantastic chocolate factory in the world. The attraction of science-fiction films such as George Lucas’s Star Wars (197 ...

that persona, within the context of a certain kind of story. Part of the fun comes from seeing that per- sona in different kinds ...

island of Guadalcanal, it ultimately uses the histor- ical setting as a very personal backdrop for a med- itation on war and its ...

her voice: movements and gestures, wig, makeup, eyeglasses, costumes, and props. On the other side of the acting scale is the ch ...

158 CHAPTER 4 ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE 1 3 5 2 4 6 The cast of characters in Stagecoach[1] Buck Rickabaugh (Andy Devine, left) and ...

Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); the cocaine king George Jung in Ted Demme’s Blow(2001); Sir James Matthew ...

most active between 1881 and 1886 in their encoun- ters with the U. S. Army, we can locate the action sometime in this period. H ...

North Country(2005), and Maggie in Hunter Hill and Perry Moore’s Lake City(2008). Spacek recalls how three very different direc- ...

announce itself directly, not through a fragile woman’s per ception), and diegesis (particularly the characterization and explic ...

1900s, filmmakers started to tell stories with their films and thus needed professional actors. Most stage actors at the time sc ...

leaves them, the interior of the stagecoach is cramped and uncomfortable, and there are no fresh horses at the way station. In a ...