| Description |
xviii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Evaluation.
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Motion pictures -- Evaluation. |
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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| Subject |
Filmkunst. |
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Films. |
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Filmtheorie. |
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Verteltheorie. |
| ISBN |
0520238915 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520238621 cloth alkaline paper |
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