An Introduction to Film
Player(1992), which features appearances by sixty- five well-known actors and personalities. Wa l k - o n s are even smaller rol ...
Many art directors have become directors. Mitchell Leisen, for example, who began his career designing films for Cecil B. DeMill ...
start at the bottom and work up; actually I guess you start in the middle and work to the outside.”^29 Building a character “bri ...
designer: Scott). The “Hellboy” creatures—which resemble images from science fiction, Japanese anime, and horror movies—originat ...
The great silent-era director F. W. Murnau emphasized intellect and counseled actors to restrain their feelings, to thinkrather ...
constructed for a film were made in Italy; and with Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria(1914; no credits for art director or costum ...
tinctively stylized actors on the American screen. They worked closely together on several stage productions at the same time th ...
On the screen, these parts will appear, in proper proportions to one another, as whole units. Light- ing helps sustain this illu ...
immediately as a metaphor for the ultimate outsider. But the challenge to Depp as an actor is not only to acknowledge just how d ...
surfaces, settings, or landscapes. Both on a set and on location, light is controlled and manipulated to achieve expressive effe ...
company of actors (Nashville, 1975; Short Cuts, 1993; Gosford Park, 2001); Mike Leigh and various actors (Life Is Sweet, 1991; N ...
river kept by Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish), a kind of fairy godmother devoted to taking in homeless children. When Harry tracks ...
gave direction “with his entire personality—his facial expressions, bending his eye. He didn’t ver- balize. He wasn’t articulate ...
important is the work of the art departments’ pro- fessional staff to render the actors’ appearance appropriate to the role. For ...
moment; they must often direct their gaze and position their body and/or face in unnatural-feeling poses to allow for lighting, ...
costumes more closely and interpret them on the basis of our experiences. The same can be said of makeup and hair design. Althou ...
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and otherness are emphasized by his costume and makeup. Other characters’ traits, such as conform- ity, sexual neediness, and br ...
and then letting this preparation pay off in moments of great theatrical vitality. Look closely, for example, at the performance ...
ahead. In Brian W. Cook’s Color Me Kubrick(2005; costume designer: Vicki Russell), a somewhat true story, John Malkovich plays A ...
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