An Introduction to Film

LeSueur (also known early in her career in the the- ater as Billie Cassin) went to Hollywood in 1925, MGM decided that her name ...

known as the magic lanternand his zoopraxis- cope(a version of the magic lantern, with a revolv- ing disc that had his photograp ...

character—an older stage actress in danger of los- ing roles because of her age—she triumphed in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All abou ...

(1894), popularly known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which represents, on Edison and Dickson’s part, a bril- liant choice of a single, ...

intense psychological preparation required the actors’ conscious efforts to tap their unconscious selves. On one hand, they had ...

Meanwhile, in November in Germany, another pair of brothers, Max and Emil Skladanowsky, projected short films in Berlin. Coincid ...

known as the Method) encourages actors to speak, move, and gesture not in a traditional stage manner but just as they would in t ...

landmark films as A Trip to the Moon(1902) and The Impossible Voyage(1904). Another early pioneer, Edwin S. Porter, was a direct ...

the kind of gently ironic distance that Robbins cre- ates in The Player. In Coen’s The Hudsucker Proxy(1994), however, both Robb ...

Hollywood style, the ascendance of Hollywood as the center of the world’s motion-picture industry, the development of movie genr ...

studio. In addition, these newcomers can negotiate a new salary for each film, and they routinely make more money from a single ...

The first multiple- reel movies included J. Stuart Blackton’s The Life of Moses(1909, 5 reels), D. W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden(191 ...

take for granted: the right to pick the roles they want to play.) However, Davis did get better roles (and rejected some juicy o ...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy), innovative direc- tors (Mack Sennett and Hal Roach), and such enduring silent movies (shorts, ser ...

studio contract. These estimates do not include fees for television acting, advertising work, DVD sales, etc. Stars of Davis’s e ...

United States, isolationist and opposed to the war, did not enter the conflict until 1917.) In March 1917, the Russian Revolutio ...

poll^23 in ranked order: (1) Denzel Washington, (2) Tom Hanks, (3) Johnny Depp, (4) Julia Roberts, (5) Will Smith, (6) John Wayn ...

1 2 Inside The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariIn Robert Wiene’s eerie, foreboding movie (1920), Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) operates a ...

has so persuasively argued, that such develop- ments may extend and enrich the illusions that the movies create at the expense o ...

artists who influenced the course of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking around the world. The French movies that we will di ...