overview, 435–61
social approach, 433, 434–35
technological approach, 433,
434, 434
film noir genre, 88, 93–96,94, 95,
242–43, 432,445, 460, 465
films:
highest grossing worldwide,
510–11
Hollywood and foreign, 516–17
international, 461–72
vs. movies, 3
nonfiction, 194
principals of, 49–56
see alsomovies
film sound, sources of, 395,395–99
film stock, 229–36, 486
gauges of, 229–30
length of, 488
speed of, 230, 488
film technology, 486–91
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
(Sakaguchi and
Sakakibara), 113, 283, 309
financing film production, 498,
505–7,506, 508–9
Fincher, David, 182, 329
The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button, 283
Fight Club, 182
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
182, 227
Se7en, 182
The Social Network,70, 129,
134,140–43, 142, 184, 227,
310, 516
Zodiac, 305, 490
Finding Neverland(Forster), 200, 293
Fine, Russell Lee, 277
Finler, Joel W., 434
Finn, Will, Home on the Range, 113
Finney, Albert, 319, 348, 348
Firefly, 110
Firmino da Hora, Leandro, 380
first-person narrators, 123
First Step, The: Facing Death
(Cheung), 469
Firth, Colin, 251
Fischer, Gunnar, 231–32, 232
Fischinger, Oskar, Motion Painting
No. 1, 112
Fishburne, Laurence, 313
Fisher, Terence, 212
Fisk, Jack, 200
Fist Fight(Breer), 81
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 484
Fitzstephens, Jack, 398
Five Easy Pieces(Rafelson), 474–75
Five Obstructions, The(von Trier),
351, 463
Flaherty, Robert J., Nanook of the
North,71, 72,443, 448
Flame Within, The(Goulding), 499
Flaming Creatures(Smith), 81
flashbacks, 161, 335, 345, 346
flash card, 489
flash-forward, 161, 345, 346
Flashpoint, 505
flat characters, 128, 128, 160
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice,
The(Ozu), 466
Fleischer, Dave, 443
Fleischer, Max, 443
Fleming, Tim, 272
Fleming, Victor, 59, 145, 191, 235, 235,
269, 394, 404, 496n, 499
Gone with the Wind,182, 193, 453
The Wizard of Oz,108, 132, 133
Fletcher, Geoffrey, 128
Fletcher, Robert, 191
Flickr, 82
Flight of the Red Balloon(Hou), 470
Flippen, Jay C., 400
Floating Weeds(Ozu), 466
floodlights, 237
Flowers and Trees(Disney), 235
Flushed Away(Bowers and Fell), 113
Fly, The(Cronenberg), 98
focal length, 244–45
focal planes, 246
focus, lenses and, 245–46, 247
rack focus and, 247
focusable spots, 237
Fogelman, Dan, 129
Fogelson, John, 404
Foley, Jack, 402
Foley, James, After Dark, My Sweet, 96
Foley sounds, 392, 401–3,402,406,
409, 414–15
Folman, Ari, Waltz with Bashir,
111, 112
Folsey, George S., 252
Fonda, Henry, 46, 88, 103, 105,300,
314, 315, 371, 398, 401
Fonda, Jane, 314, 346
Fong, Allen, 469
Father and Son, 469
Just Like Weather, 469
Footlight Parade(Bacon), 108
Forbidden Kingdom, The(Minkoff ), 469Forbidden Planet(Wilcox), 98
Ford, John, 88, 137, 179, 201, 207,
208, 237, 237,254, 263,
308,321–22, 414, 459, 464,
471, 499
Cheyenne Autumn, 314
Drums Along the Mohawk,235,
314
Fort Apache, 105
The Grapes of Wrath,46, 47,167,
228, 401
The Informer,230, 263
The Iron Horse,105, 314
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance,
105
My Darling Clementine,88, 105,
205–6, 237, 237,371, 398
The Searchers, 40,87, 103, 231, 232,
314, 327, 359, 362
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,105,
231, 314
Stagecoach,88, 103, 157–59, 161,
314, 315, 366
3 Godfathers, 103
Ford, Katie, 143
Foreman, Carl, 151
Forest Gump(Zemeckis), 209
form, 36–63,40, 441
analysis of, 14–20
and content, 36–39, 37
defined, 36
and expectations, 39–42
principals of film, 46, 49–56
Forman, Milos, 272
Hair, 108
format, 486
Forrest Gump(Zemeckis), 210, 281
Forster, Marc, 293, 314
Finding Neverland, 200
Stranger than Fiction, 125
Fort Apache(Ford), 105
Forty Guns(Fuller), 105
42nd Street(Bacon), 108
40 Year Old Virgin, The(Apatow), 109
Fosse, Bob, Cabaret, 108
Foster, Jodie, 44, 317
400 Blows, The(Truffaut), 373, 374,
459, 459
4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days(Mungiu),
21, 22
Four Sheets to the Wind(Harjo), 314
fourth wall, 318
Fox Grandeur 70mm process, 248
Fox Studios, 282
Foxx, Jamie, 304, 313INDEX 589