An Introduction to Film

England and the Free Cinema Movement The British Free Cinema movement, which devel- oped between 1956 and 1959, like the work of ...

Krampf, Günther, 277 Krasker, Robert, 263 Krauss, Werner, 445 Krays, The(Medak), 93 Kriemhild’s Revenge(Lang), 197 Kroplachev, G ...

based on the Dogme 95 manifesto of ten rules (known as “The Vow of Chastity”), with which par- ticipating directors were require ...

Lee, Spike, 260, 261,311, 322, 474 Do the Right Thing, 319 Malcolm X, 517 “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 211 Léger, Fe ...

the 1980s. Its founders, a group of young writers and filmmakers, recognized that any attempt to revive the German cinema must d ...

Love Me Tonight(Mamoulian), 106, 107, 109, 260, 261, 298 n, 395, 418 Lovering, Otho, 366 Loves of Queen Elizabeth, The (Desfonta ...

Hollywood filmmaking, especially the work of John Ford. However, aside from familiar cinematic tech- nique, his films are thorou ...

Marquand, Richard, 191, 281 Marriage of Maria Braun, The (Fassbinder), 464 Marsden, Jason, 392 Marsh, Mae, 295 Marshall, Frank, ...

men, male-female relations, and the idea that a man can be saved by a woman’s love. These themes characterize his greatest postw ...

Milestone, Lewis, 257, 259 Ocean’s Eleven, 372 Milk(Van Sant), 156 Milky Way, The(Buñuel), 81 Millan, Victor, 271 Milland, Ray, ...

filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, who is best known for House(1977). This stylistically bizarre horror film demonstrates a strong fam ...

illusion of movement in, 47–49, 50 illusion of succession in, 49 international, 461–72 labor and unions and, 503–4 length of, 44 ...

country with the world’s largest population, is ostensibly Communist. Taiwan, an island off the southern coast of China, has a d ...

Nehru(Benegal), 472 Neill, Sam, 264, 264 Neill, Ve, 189 Nelson, Sean, 319, 319 neorealism, 200, 455–57, 462 Nestor Sextone for P ...

degrees, these disparate elements: an intricate, sometimes incomprehensible, melodramatic plot; philosophical codes of honor bas ...

On the Waterfront(Kazan), 179, 197, 303,304, 327, 502 open and closed frames, 207 open frames, 205–8 Open Hearts(Bier), 463 Ophü ...

action movies of earlier decades, it was concerned with realistic depictions of ordinary people. Excel- lent examples are Hsiao- ...

performance capture, 283 performances, assessing acting, 327–36, 329 Peripheral Produce, 82 Perkins, V. F., 181 Persepolis(Satra ...

as the Mumbai film industry is known. When Indian films are screened theatrically in the United States, the audiences are typica ...

Private Life of Henry VIII(Korda), 200 Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The(Curtiz), 193, 307 Probyn, Brian, 258 processing ...