An Introduction to Film

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 ...

in the novel and theater, the industry developed the full-length narrative film. When the public wanted to hear actors speak as ...

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

478 CHAPTER 10FILM HISTORY ✔Also learn about the film’s aesthetic context: Was it made as part of a particular film move- ment ( ...

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

Questions for Review What is meant by the term film history? Why is a knowledge of it invaluable in looking at movies and analy ...

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

Chinatown(1974). Roman Polanski, director. Citizen Kane(1941). Orson Welles, director. A City of Sadness(1989). Hsiao-hsien Hou, ...

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

Italian for Beginners(2000). Lone Scherfig, director. An Italian Straw Hat(1928). René Clair, director. Ivan the Terrible: Part ...

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

The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928). Germaine Dulac, director. Seminary Girls(1897). Thomas A. Edison, director. Sense and Sens ...

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

CHAPTER ELEVEN Filmmaking Technologies and Production Systems 300 (2006) . Zack Snyder, director. ...

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 ...

484 CHAPTER 11FILMMAKING TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS In fact, however, that equation is simple: movie - making is, above ...

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

forward through the years by teamwork. From the moment the raw film stock is purchased through its exposure, processing, editing ...

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

movies is felt around the globe. Today, however, it confronts another major issue—the question of an all-out conversion from fil ...