An Introduction to Film

deep, soothing voice of the narrator (Morgan Free- man) speaking the opening lines of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Wo ...

GLOSSARY 547 video assist camera A tiny device, mounted in the viewing system of the film camera, that enables ascript superviso ...

During a lull before the tripods appear again, we hear more ambient sounds: Rachel’s shrill screams, a radio report on the statu ...

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The basement is full of sounds that further establish the imminent evil: scurrying rats; the soft, whirring sound of a tripod’s ...

FURTHER READING 549 Chapter 1: Looking at Movies Theory and Aesthetics Aitken, Ian. European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical ...

fields of sound and special effects. Welles’s budget (estimated at $2,000) paid for his eleven-person radio cast, small crew, an ...

Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972. Youngblood, Gene. Expanded ...

dren’s secret. Happily, at least for the moment, he doesn’t. The sound effects in both of these films were created by Foley arti ...

FURTHER READING 551 Solomon, Stanley J. Beyond Formula: American Film Genres. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Warshow ...

We see and hear clearly the source of each of these sounds. Because we are in the desert, there is no background sound per se (w ...

Documentary Films Aitken, Ian. Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2006. Aufderheide, Patricia. Documenta ...

a movie is set in other distinct environments— seashore, desert, mountain valley—the natural sounds associated with these places ...

FURTHER READING 553 King, Geoff, and Tanya Krzywinska. Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace.London: Wallflower, ...

of the apes in the prologue reflect Kubrick’s point of view that aggression and violence have always been a part of the world—in ...

Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Quart, Barbara Koenig. Women Directors: T ...

Playing on our expectations, though, Jeunet and Caro cut back and forth between the lovers and other inhabitants of the building ...

FURTHER READING 555 Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting: How Art Is Used in Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. ...

Continuity Sound can link one shot to the next, indicating that the scene has not changed in either time or space. Overlapping s ...

Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle Annas, Alicia. “The Photogenic Formula: Hairstyles and Makeup in Historical Films.” In Hollywood ...