An Introduction to Film

involving experience than most conventional nar - rative or documentary treatments of similar sub- ject matter. While Wavelength ...

Rearranged footageA sequence in Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America(1992) presents successive images o ...

Richardson and that attempted to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind. In Meshes, Deren is both the creative ...

Documentary/narrative fusionLarry Charles’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan( ...

Film-type fusionPerhaps the film that best exemplifies the fusion of narrative, documentary, and experimental film types is Will ...

subcategories. These distinctions are both useful and inevitable. Any art form practiced by ambi- tious innovators and consumed ...

And, of course, academic scholars are not the only movie lovers who find it useful to categorize films by genre. Genre has a sig ...

in a particular genre; piggyback on the success of a previous genre hit; and even recycle props, sets, costumes, and digital bac ...

Breathless (1960) could be considered film noir; Woody Allen’s Annie Hall(1977) is a romantic com- edy; John Ford’s The Searcher ...

Theme A movie’s themeis a unifying idea that the film expresses through its narrative or imagery. Not every genre is united by a ...

Ironically, science-fiction films use the latest high-tech special effects to tell stories that warn against the dehumanizing da ...

Stars Even the actors who star in genre movies factor into how the genre is classified, analyzed, and received by audiences. In ...

1 2 3 Multigenre stardom With striking performances in Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married(1986) and Joel and Ethan Coe ...

initial victims (such as the thugs responsible for the protagonist’s initial humiliation) are usually por- trayed as deserving o ...

portrayals were among the most brutal in cinema history—was equally beloved as a star of happy-go- lucky musicals.) Other notabl ...

outlook. Like the eggs for which they are named, the hard-boiled characters in film noir have a tough interior beneath brittle s ...

“deadly woman”) role cast women as seductive, autonomous, and deceptive predators who use men for their own means. As a rule, th ...

Other notable film-noir movies include The Mal- tese Falcon (1941; director: John Huston); Laura (1944; director: Otto Preminger ...

unconscious, concerns are at the root of a great deal of artistic expression. Science-inspired anxiety is behind the defining th ...

ruins. In movies like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), the setting suggests a combination of both. Of course, outer space is ...