An Introduction to Film

Stranger than Fiction(Forster), 125
Stranger Than Paradise(Jarmusch),
473
Strasberg, Lee, 303
Stravinsky, Igor, 404
Straw Dogs(Peckinpah), 475
stream of consciousness, 80–81
Streep, Meryl, 302, 407
Streetcar Named Desire, A(Kazan),
304
Street of Shame(Mizoguchi), 466
Streisand, Barbra, 321
stretch relationship, 150–51
Strike(Eisenstein), 449
Strip Mall Trilogy, The(Beebe), 82
Stroman, Susan, The Producers,
109
Stromberg, Hunt, 496, 497
Stromberg, Robert, 179, 190
structure:
dramatic, 136
narrative, 131–36
normal world in, 131, 132, 160
three-act, 160–61
see alsoform
Struss, Karl, 265
Stuart, Gloria, 315
Stuck on You(Farrelly and Farrelly),
109
Studio Basic Agreement, 503
studio era and acting, 299–302
studio system, 137, 187, 233, 238,
242, 310, 315, 321, 441, 451,
472–73, 485, 495–501,497,
498,509, 512, 513–14
collapse of, 472–73
directors in, 499
organization of, 495–501
post-1931, 496–98
pre-1931, 495
pre-1950, 498
producers in, 495–500
television and, 501
see alsoHollywood production
systems
stunt persons, 315
Sturges, Preston, 399, 452
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek,
21, 22
style, acting, 318–20, 319
subtext, 303
subtractive color systems,
234–35
Sudden Fear(Miller), 301

Suddenly, Last Summer(Mankiewicz),

302, 502

summary relationship, 150–51,

152

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

(Murnau), 155, 182, 265,

297, 495

Sunset Boulevard(Wilder), 94,104,

199, 245,299, 314, 432

Sunshine State(Sayles), 517

Super 8(Abrams), 66, 85

Superbad(Mottola), 13, 14, 109

superimpositions, 384

Superman(Donner), 111

supporting players, 300

supporting roles, 315, 315

surprise, 153–54, 154

vs. suspense, 154

surrealist films, 446–47, 447

Suschitzky, Peter, 281

suspense, 153–54, 154, 164

patterns and, 42, 44

in Stagecoach(Ford), 164

vs. surprise, 154

Suspense(Smalley and Weber),

374

Suspicion(Hitchcock), 301

Suspiria(Argento), 101, 196

Suvari, Mena, 216, 217, 218, 220,

419

Svankmejer, Jan, 112

Swain, Mack, 53

Swan, Buddy, 323, 324

Swank, Hilary, 305, 344

Swanson, Gloria, 191, 197, 199, 245,

314, 432

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of

Fleet Street(Burton), 6, 171,

211, 292

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of

Fleet Street(Sondheim), 6

Sweet Hereafter, The(Egoyan), 154,

400–401, 418

Sweet Smell of Success

(Mackendrick), 96, 233,

234, 239, 322

Swing Time(Stevens), 108

swish pans, 384

swordplay, 209

Sylbert, Richard, 199, 204

Sylwan, Kari, 370

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

(Greaves), 83

Synecdoche, New York(Kaufman), 82

synthespians, 309, 310

see alsocomputer-generated

imagery

Syriana(Gaghan), 70

T

Tachell, Terri, 130

Taghmaoui, Saïd, 517

Taipei Story(Yang), 470

Taiwan, 469–70

Taiwan cinema, 201

take, 228

Takemitsu, Toru, 404

take-up spool, 487

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 435

Tales of Manhattan(Duvivier), 313

Talk to Her(Almodóvar), 265

Tally, Ted, 42

Taloni, Adriano, 400

Tam, Patrick, 469

A Spectrum of Multiple Stars:

Wang Chuanru, 469

Tamai, Masao, 280

Taming of the Shrew, The(Zeffirelli),

302

Tamsay, Paul, 145

Tanaka, Kinuyo, 467

Tandan, Loveleen, Slumdog

Millionaire,390, 403

Tangled(Greno and Howard), 129

Tarantino, Quentin, 146, 201, 231,

339,345, 405, 469, 490

Kill Billmovies, 108, 469

Pulp Fiction, 138, 139

Reservoir Dogs,93, 469

Taraporevala, Sooni, Little Zizou,

472

Tarkovsky, Andrei, 172, 477

Solaris, 98

Stalker, 98

Tashiro, C.S., 432

Tashlin, Frank, 143

Tati, Jacques, 109, 458

Tatum, Channing, 517

Taviani, Paolo, and Vittorio, Padre

Padrone,400, 457

Tavoularis, Dean, 176

Taxi Driver(Scorsese), 155, 275, 320,

321, 371

Taylor, Elizabeth, 191, 302, 314

Taylor, Gilbert, 245,268, 272, 281

Taylor, J. O., 279

Taylor, Robert, 496

INDEX 611