An Introduction to Film

Demme, Jonathan, 42, 44, 312 The Silence of the Lambs,53, 102 Demme, Ted, 293 Demy, Jacques, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 105 Den ...

The genres dominated production: screwball come- dies, musicals, gangster movies, historical epics, melodramas, newspaper and ho ...

by the events leading up to the Second World War. The values stressed in these movies were heroism, fidelity, family life, citiz ...

Drew, Robert, 475 Drews, Berta, 372 Dreyer, Carl Theodor, 208, 278, 326 The Passion of Joan of Arc, 448 Dreyfus, Jean-Claude, 41 ...

those factors were part of the predominant Ameri- can movie culture before the Second World War. In terms of cinematic style, na ...

Entr’acte(Clair), 79, 446 environmental sounds, 401–3 Ephron, Nora, 400 Bewitched, 307 Epstein, Jean, The Fall of the House of U ...

directly to the heart of each scene. For the most part, the editing is conventional, most often taking place within the long tak ...

overview, 435–61 social approach, 433, 434–35 technological approach, 433, 434, 434 film noir genre, 88, 93–96,94, 95, 242–43, 4 ...

skeptical of the Catholic Church, antibureaucratic, and socialist. But overall, because it does not have an inherent political p ...

Foy, Brian, The Lights of New York, 451 Fraker, William, 266 frames, framing, 202–8, 248–75, 250,255, 323–26 camera angle and he ...

The Bicycle Thievesis such a powerful film because of the director’s spare style, humanist treatment of the story, and his willi ...

Glennon, Bert, 235 Gloria(Cassavetes), 321 Goalie’s Anxiety of the Penalty Kick, The(Wenders), 464 goals, character, 127, 131 Go ...

The origins of the New Wave were influenced by several movements. The first was the French cinema itself, including the 1930s ci ...

Hallelujah!(Vidor), 390 Haller, Daniel, 191 Haller, Ernest, 235, 235, 269 Halloween lighting, 101, 102, 241 Halloweenmovies, 100 ...

tor or the entire collaborative team, including the director—that makes a movie? Truffaut idolized directors who made highly per ...

Hiroshima mon amour(Resnais), 345 Hirsch, Paul, 372 Hirschberg, Lora, 389 Hirshfeld, Gerald, 280 His Girl Friday(Hawks), 305 his ...

he uses them. Breathless, a movie that asserts Godard’s personality and ideology, virtually defines what is meant by an auteur f ...

Hurt Locker, The(Bigelow), 133, 246, 387, 403 Hustler, The(Rossen), 304 Huston, Anjelica, 260 Huston, Danny, 278 Huston, John, 2 ...

sequence—made up of an establishing shot, long shot, medium shot, and close-up, generally in that order—to set the time and plac ...

Jezebel(Wyler), 302, 306, 306 Jindabyne(Lawrence), 145 Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, 408 Joffé, Roland, 405 Johansson, Scarle ...