Closely watched films
Subtitle: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique
By: Marilyn Fabe.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Evaluation; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of film narrative: D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation; title: The art of montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The battleship Potemkin; title: Expressionism and realism in film form: F.W. Murnau's The last laugh and Charles Chaplin's The adventurer; title: The conversion to sound and the classical Hollywood film: Howard Hawks's His girl Friday; title: Expressive realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane; title: Italian neorealism: Vittorio de Sica's The bicycle thief; title: Auteur theory and the French new wave: François Truffaut's The 400 blows; title: Hollywood auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious; title: The European art film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2; title: Film and postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall; title: Political cinema: Spike Lee's Do the right thing; title: Feminism and film form: Patricia Rozema's I've heard the mermaids singing; title: Epilogue: digital video and new forms of narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode.