An Introduction to Film

premonition of something that might happen, or even a psychic projection. Flash-forward is a prob- lematic element in any film t ...

the Monster in a windmill that they set afire. Bur- ton similarly places the spectacular climax of his film in an ominous windmi ...

are watching is at least partly fantastical and that we should be ready to suspend our disbelief. The most common manipulation o ...

movie storyboards) that had both a moral and a satirical message. Rowlandson created an instantly recognizable gallery of social ...

as well as by the manner in which the editing makes the transition from the first shot to the second. In some cases, such as the ...

with nightmares.”^18 Sleepy Hollowis clearly a closed film that depicts a singular, self-enclosed world in which almost everyone ...

a federal marshal. Sisco has witnessed Foley and a buddy bust out of prison, and they take her hostage, but she escapes. The nex ...

clip from a movie, we can only generalize in dis- cussing them in a movie as stylistically rich as Sleepy Hollow. Throughout, ho ...

mass destruction to end the world. The problem is that Spottswoode has to make a complete soldier of Johnston in “very little ti ...

The film opens with a moving aerial shot that establishes the classic suburban scene of tree-lined streets in an upper-middle-cl ...

to signal the transitions from shot to shot. Luckily, our minds are able to understand these conven- tions and to infer correctl ...

people; his disturbed, unresponsive wife, Barbara (Allison Janney); and their teenage son, Ricky (Wes Bentley), who is part stud ...

controlling the film’s emphasis on a person, setting, or object—with such a sense of joy that the movie is more about the editin ...

china service. Ricky pretends that he buys his state-of-the-art audio and video equipment with money earned from a job working f ...

1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 THE FILM EDITOR 353 ...

Once he has quit his job, Lester wears jeans when he is relaxing and next to nothing when he is work- ing out with weights in hi ...

rhythm with your finger at each of the thirty-nine cuts in the scene, you’ll find that you’re able to keep a discernible rhythm ...

are waiting for a train to arrive) and of what we hear (an equally extraordinary montage of sounds, the slow, steady rhythm of w ...

220 CHAPTER 5 MISE-EN-SCÈNE 1 3 2 4 5 Different settings in American Beautyprovoke different behaviors from different characters ...

356 CHAPTER 8EDITING 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...