An Introduction to Film

Hollywood style, the ascendance of Hollywood as the center of the world’s motion-picture industry, the development of movie genr ...

INDEX 577 Page numbers in italicsrefer to illustrations and captions; those in boldfacerefer to main discussions of topics. A Aa ...

The first multiple- reel movies included J. Stuart Blackton’s The Life of Moses(1909, 5 reels), D. W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden(191 ...

Aguirre: The Wrath of God(Herzog), 418, 464 Aguirresarobe, Javier, 265 Aibel, Jonathan, 129 Aiello, Danny, 261, 261 Ajantrik(Gha ...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy), innovative direc- tors (Mack Sennett and Hal Roach), and such enduring silent movies (shorts, ser ...

Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 108, 442 Argento, Dario, Suspiria, 101, 196 Arikawa, Sadamasa, 280 Aristotle, 137 Arnaz, Desi, 501 Arn ...

United States, isolationist and opposed to the war, did not enter the conflict until 1917.) In March 1917, the Russian Revolutio ...

Bay, Michael: The Rock, 91 Transformers, 115 Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 514 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 403 Bazell ...

1 2 Inside The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariIn Robert Wiene’s eerie, foreboding movie (1920), Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) operates a ...

Blochberger, Ludwig, 144 blocking, 209 Blomkamp, Neill, District 9,99, 130 Blondie of the Follies(Goulding), 499 Blood of a Poet ...

artists who influenced the course of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking around the world. The French movies that we will di ...

Burton, Tim (continued) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 190, 211 Dark Shadows, 292 Edward Scissorhands, 292 Frankenweenie, 11 ...

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

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

minor, 160 motivation of, 130 narrative and, 127–31,128, 160 sidekick, 92 sound and, 419,420, 421,426–28 in Stagecoach(Ford), 15 ...

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 ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg), 97, 281 close-up, 5, 51, 252, 252,278,326, 326–27, 327 Cloutier, Suzanne, 404, 4 ...

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

Cries and Whispers(Bergman), 370, 372 Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene (Edison), 103 crisis, in dramatic structure, 135, 136,160–61 ...

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