An Introduction to Film

Each actor started in the movies in a different way. Stanwyck, who was born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn in 1907, started on the Bro ...

filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, who is best known for House(1977). This stylistically bizarre horror film demonstrates a strong fam ...

Stella is a formidable character for any actress to attempt, but Stanwyck beautifully meets the challenge of balancing the chara ...

country with the world’s largest population, is ostensibly Communist. Taiwan, an island off the southern coast of China, has a d ...

Stanwyck arrived at this interpretation intuitively or at Vidor’s suggestion. Let’s look more closely at what Stanwyck expresses ...

degrees, these disparate elements: an intricate, sometimes incomprehensible, melodramatic plot; philosophical codes of honor bas ...

flashbacks that show her falling for his boyish charm and promise of a life together to the nasty fight that ends it all. Their ...

action movies of earlier decades, it was concerned with realistic depictions of ordinary people. Excel- lent examples are Hsiao- ...

quality to the footage. The second stage began when the two principal actors—joined by Faith Wladyka, who plays Frankie, their d ...

as the Mumbai film industry is known. When Indian films are screened theatrically in the United States, the audiences are typica ...

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

(The Music Room, 1958), Devi(The Goddess, 1960), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Shatranj-ke- Khilari(The Chess Players, 1977 ...

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

The negative factors included declining audiences, caused in part by competition from television; the escalating costs of produc ...

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

Eastwood, George Roy Hill, Jim Jarmusch, Diane Keaton, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, G ...

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

Five Easy Pieces (1970), and Terrence Malick’s Bad- lands(1973). While continuity editing remained the norm, there was an increa ...

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

experimental films by such artists as Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Baillie, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, and Hollis Fram ...