An Introduction to Film

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 19 13 14 17 18 (^1516) (and our) ears as the camera glides toward her for three and a half very long s ...

20 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES background [20]. She races past Su-Chin without a word. She does not have to say anything. Cinemat ...

Comparative cultural analysisA comparison of Juno’s treatment of unwanted pregnancy with other films featuring the same subject ...

Down East, which banished its unwed mother and drove her to attempted suicide, to Preston Sturges’s irreverent 1944 comedy The M ...

DVDIn this tutorial, Dave Monahan discusses cultural analysis and looks closely at the Harry Potterseries. many of these same sc ...

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inspire his growing legions of followers. The fic- tional struggle against Voldemort has a trajectory similar to the historic st ...

simply distracted. But sometimes we also crave the kind of lavish visual extravaganza known as specta- cle. Cinema’s unique capa ...

WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 27 1 3 5a 2 4 5b creaking floorboards, the radio is all we hear. The reception is spotty and the speak ...

28 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES 8 6a 7a 6b 7b looming appearance feels almost aggressive; the filmmakers are building tension and ...

9 11 13 10 12 14a WAYS OF LOOKING AT MOVIES 29 (when the direction a character looks corresponds with the angle of a point-of-vi ...

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been threatened, confirmed, and celebrated over the course of twenty-three shots, ending with shots [17–23]. When continuity ret ...

32 CHAPTER 1LOOKING AT MOVIES Analyzing Movies As we said at the beginning of the chapter, the pri- mary goal of Looking at Movi ...

MOVIES DESCRIBED OR ILLUSTRATED IN THIS CHAPTER 33 Questions for Review What do you think of when you hear the word movie? Has ...

Knocked Up(2007). Judd Apatow, director. Krrish(2006). Rakesh Roshan, director. Land in Anguish(1967). Glauber Rocha, director. ...

CHAPTER TWO Principles of Film Form The Tree of Life (2011). Terrence Malick, director. ...

36 CHAPTER 2PRINCIPLES OF FILM FORM as lighting, setting, props, costumes, and makeup within individual shots. Sound, another el ...

Juno thinking about fingernails and changing her mind.The form used to express that subject and meaning includes decor, patterns ...

subject matter as, and thus no more “real” than, the other two sculptures. Giacometti’s version, because of its exaggerated form ...