An Introduction to Film

couple of hours. Once the viewer knows whether she has entered a world of talking dogs or wartime chaos—or whatever the case may ...

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sets off to replace a rug and winds up a pawn in someone else’s mystery. The goal changes every day for William James, the dange ...

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hikers to an exhilarating but dangerous plunge into an underground pool before leaving them behind to trek still deeper into the ...

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goal remains out of reach. This rising action, and the tension it provokes, enhances our engagement with the ongoing narrative. ...

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point of Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope(1977; director/screenwriter: George Lucas), Luke Sky- walker’s fellow fighter pilots h ...

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script page represents one minute of screen time. The best screenwriters learn to craft concise but vivid descriptions of essent ...

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138 CHAPTER 4 ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE Script to screenIn Pulp Fiction(1994), the mob hit man Vinnie (John Travolta) has inadverten ...

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xiiCONTENTS CHAPTER Acknowledgments xix Looking at Movies Learning Objectives Looking at Movies What Is a Movie? Ways of Lookin ...

The complexities of narratology are beyond the scope of this book,^4 but we can begin our study by distinguishing between two fu ...

To StudentsTo Students xiii In 1936, art historian Erwin Panofsky had an insight into the movies as a form of popular art—an obs ...

plot concerns only those portions of his journey necessary to effectively convey the Ivy League set- ting and the narrative idea ...

the foundation for its meaning. After all, in the real life of the movies, on the screen, it is not historians, theorists, or cr ...

next eight minutes of The Social Networkdepict his discovery of the Internet’s latent power to enthrall and connect its users. T ...