An Introduction to Film

supernatural worlds and events that have little or nothing in common with our actual experiences. For example, Victor Fleming’s ...

In Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), people, places, and things look, sound, and move in ways that are believable and even convin ...

CINEMATIC LANGUAGE 61 language creates meaning: how close-ups have the power to change our proximity to a character or low camer ...

Questions for Review How and why do we differentiate between form and content in a movie, and why are they relevant to one anot ...

Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter American Beauty(1999). Sam Mendes, director. Atonement(2007). Joe Wright, direct ...

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CHAPTER THREE Types of Movies True Grit (2010). Joel and Ethan Coen, directors. ...

66 CHAPTER 3TYPES OF MOVIES When it comes to cinema, nothing is absolute. In the world of movies, a narrative might be a type of ...

telling is a complicated business, especially when one is relating a multifaceted story involving multi- ple characters and conf ...

them, then by teaching them to take their own pho- tographs. She works to convince the sex workers to allow her greater access t ...

Causal minimalismA fiction movie need not have a traditional goal-driven plot to be considered narrative. Richard Linklater’s Sl ...

engaged with planning, capturing, selecting, and arranging footage tend to create sequences that grow logically in some way. The ...

storytelling: documentary film is more concerned with the recording of reality, the education of view- ers, or the presentation ...

However, no one who watches Nanookcould argue that the film’s portrayal of the Inuit and their nomadic northern lifestyle is a c ...

fied image of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers for the consumption of non-German audiences before World War II. Over a centur ...

walk the picket lines, and hold their families and communities together. While direct cinema can help reveal a subject in profou ...

editing software iMovie and openly identified it as the “Ken Burns Effect.” Many documentaries investigate events that happened ...

defy categorization and convention. For starters, it’s helpful to think of experimental cinema as that which pushes the boundari ...

ings, they resist the kind of accessible and universal meaning found in conventional narrative and documentary films.^1 Because ...

25 segments unfold, the offscreen girl narrator shifts from mythological accounts of paternal rela- tionships to third-person ac ...