An Introduction to Film

Similarly, there is no one way for actors to find out about parts that they may want to play. Produc- ers, directors, screenwrit ...

mécanique, 1924); and Germaine Dulac, one of the cinema’s first female artists, whose The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928) is on ...

Sakini in Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon(1956), and Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Blake Edwards’s Breakfast at ...

include Abel Gance’s The Wheel (1923), which embodies naturalistic philosophy and reflects Grif- fith’s editing style, and Napol ...

Micheaux was the most prominent among the lead- ers of this effort. Although he made about forty feature films, only ten survive ...

one based on the idea that a film was not shot, but rather built up from its footage. This is reflected in his film Mother (1926 ...

Cesar Romero, Lupe Velez, Anna May Wong, and Yun-Fat Chow. Native Americans, too, have suffered the indigni- ties of either bein ...

produce a new idea (synthesis). The result empha- sizes a dynamic juxtaposition of individual shots that not only calls attentio ...

extras, stuntpersons, and even animal performers. Actors who play major roles(also called main, featured, or lead roles) become ...

None of this could have been achieved without the efficiency of the studio system, which standard- ized the way movies were prod ...

Player(1992), which features appearances by sixty- five well-known actors and personalities. Wa l k - o n s are even smaller rol ...

The genres dominated production: screwball come- dies, musicals, gangster movies, historical epics, melodramas, newspaper and ho ...

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 ...

by the events leading up to the Second World War. The values stressed in these movies were heroism, fidelity, family life, citiz ...

The great silent-era director F. W. Murnau emphasized intellect and counseled actors to restrain their feelings, to thinkrather ...

those factors were part of the predominant Ameri- can movie culture before the Second World War. In terms of cinematic style, na ...

tinctively stylized actors on the American screen. They worked closely together on several stage productions at the same time th ...

directly to the heart of each scene. For the most part, the editing is conventional, most often taking place within the long tak ...

immediately as a metaphor for the ultimate outsider. But the challenge to Depp as an actor is not only to acknowledge just how d ...

skeptical of the Catholic Church, antibureaucratic, and socialist. But overall, because it does not have an inherent political p ...