Closely watched films : an introduction to the art of narrative film technique / Marilyn Fabe.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fabe, Marilyn
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Evaluation.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Motion pictures.
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Physical Description:xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The beginnings of film narrative: D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation
  • The art of montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The battleship Potemkin
  • Expressionism and realism in film form: F.W. Murnau's The last laugh and Charles Chaplin's The adventurer
  • The conversion to sound and the classical Hollywood film: Howard Hawks's His girl Friday
  • Expressive realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
  • Italian neorealism: Vittorio de Sica's The bicycle thief
  • Auteur theory and the French new wave: François Truffaut's The 400 blows
  • Hollywood auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
  • The European art film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
  • Film and postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall
  • Political cinema: Spike Lee's Do the right thing
  • Feminism and film form: Patricia Rozema's I've heard the mermaids singing
  • Epilogue: digital video and new forms of narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode.