An Introduction to Film

Gilliam); Gattaca(1997; director: Andrew Niccol); Starship Troopers(1997; director: Paul Verhoeven); The Iron Giant(1999; direct ...

the other is so far removed from normalcy, the protagonist may reject her own suspicions before she experiences the other more d ...

world”—a hyperordinary place, usually a small town threatened by invasion of the other. This set- ting casts the protagonist as ...

DVDThis tutorial explores the form and conventions of the Western. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974; director: Tobe Hooper); Carri ...

wasted no time getting into the act. Some of the earliest motion pictures were Westerns, including Thomas Edison’s 46-second, on ...

and John Wayne and on up to Clint Eastwood, are outsized but relatively subdued performers. All of the tertiary character types ...

out of town, it gets him a job on a Western.) The Western landscape is not limited to background information. The big skies and ...

early film industry had to create a workable system for recording and projecting sound—a process over twenty-five years in the m ...

Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight(1932) freed the genre from the Broadway setting. [Mamoulian also directed Applause(1929), a p ...

Notable musicals include Le Million(1931; direc- tor: René Clair); The Three Penny Opera(1931; direc- tor: G. W. Pabst); 42nd St ...

Through the 1930s, a wide variety of subgenres developed: comedy of wit (Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise, 1932); romantic c ...

changing society. Arguably, genres that don’t evolve lose the audience’s interest quickly and fade away. The Western, perhaps th ...

sion talk shows but very few movies, Brokeback Mountaindemonstrates that generic transforma- tion can work in very powerful ways ...

motion-picture camera; the animator moves the objects slightly for each recorded frame. The objects moved and photographed for s ...

tools of theater and animation, uses the virtual world of computer-modeling software to generate the ani- mation. John Lasseter’ ...

This process was so time consuming and expen- sive that it contributed to the failure of the film’s production company. Nonethel ...

character is so anthropomorphic that it is nearly indistinguishable from a human being, we monitor the appearance of that object ...

116 CHAPTER 3TYPES OF MOVIES Analyzing Types of Movies This chapter’s broad survey of the different types of movies should make ...

a conventional interview-based documentary? What are Fred Camper’s six characteristics most experimental films share? What is a ...

Dead Man(1995). Jim Jarmusch, director. Death to the Tinman(2007). Ray Tintori, director. The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A P ...