An Introduction to Film

they did, Williams (and Gosling) was faced with dif- ficult challenges in maintaining expressive coher- ence. Ultimately, she cr ...

popular and hugely successful science-fiction and fantasy movies, the majority of today’s stories involve recognizable people we ...

Questions for Review How is movie acting today different from movie acting from the 1930s through the 1960s? Why is the relatio ...

varied that it creates a desirable ambiguity, one in which viewers are required to reach their own con- clusions about the moral ...

I’m Not There(2007). Todd Haynes, director. Iron Man(2008). Jon Favreau, director. Kansas City(1996). Robert Altman, director. T ...

where he is killed. At other times, the scene begins with the murderer in one corner of the frame, so that we see what he’s seei ...

CHAPTER EIGHT Editing Inglorious Basterds (2009). Quentin Tarantino, director; Sally Menke, editor. ...

what we see within a rectangular border, generally wider than it is high. Because it shapes the image in a configuration that do ...

340 CHAPTER 8EDITING far more than an assembly process, for film editing controls the creative and expressive power of the movie ...

206 CHAPTER 5 MISE-EN-SCÈNE 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 ...

WHAT IS EDITING? 341 1 3 5 2 4 6 The power of editing These images, taken from a roughly half-minute sequence from Darren Aronof ...

hero, Earp, arrives in the lawless town, becomes the sheriff, establishes civic order, and then departs for his own personal rea ...

assumed that the actor was reacting to each stimu- lus by changing his expression appropriately— showing sorrow (for the dead wo ...

more important than the characters. The highly melodramatic story concerns a young ballet dancer, Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), ...

times read about in the press—tend to inflate this ratio of unused to used footage to extremes. Perhaps the best-known extreme e ...

Story’s lack of movement when compared to the frenetic movement in, say, Yimou Zhang’s Hero (2002; production designers: Tingxia ...

selecting and arranging the thousands of feet of live footage that, in the finished movie, is intercut with archival footage of ...

can suggest the nature and complexity of whatever relationship may exist between them, and thus their placement and proximity ar ...

ters in Star Warsare flying (and moving around within) a vast spaceship. Instead, a series of clev- erly composed shots filmed o ...

realized mise-en-scène plays a crucial role in creat- ing the illusion of naturalness that encourages our enjoyment of movies as ...