The Way Hollywood Tells It
Subtitle: Story and Style in Modern Movies
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780520246225
Copyright date: 2006
Description: Includes information on Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Asian films, Brian de Plama, European cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, Hong Kong films, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Otto Preminger, Brett Ratner, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, American Graffiti, At Long Last Love, A Beautiful Mind, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Jaws, Jerry Maguire, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix trilogy, Memento, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sixth Sense, Star Wars series, Two Weeks Notice, arcing shots, axis of action, black and white footage, camera movement, characterization, climax, close ups, comedies, complicating action, cutting, dialogue hook, directors, editing, energy, epilogue, establishing shots, fantasy, film noir, flashbacks, following shots, foreshadowing, four part structure, framing, handheld shots, heroes, horror, hyperclassical construction, independent films, innovation, intensified continuity, intercutting, long lens, long takes, low budget films, montage sequences, motifs, multiple camera shooting, narrative, over the shoulder shots, overt narration, plot, postclassical cinema, protagonists, puzzle films, rapid cutting, reverse order plotting, romantic comedy, science fiction, set up, shots, singles, soundtracks, special effects, Stedicam, story development, studio era, television, thrillers, time, tracking shots, video, violence, visceral effects, visual style, wide angle lens, wide screen, wipe by cuts, wipes, etc.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: ix; label: Introduction: Beyond the Blockbuster
title: 1; label: part i: a real story
title: 19; label: 1. Continuing Tradition, by Any Means Necessary
title: 27; label: 2. Pushing the Premises
title: 51; label: 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives
title: 72; label: 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie
title: 104; label: part ii: a stylish style
title: 115; label: 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions
title: 121; label: 2. Some Likely Sources
title: 139; label: 3. Style, Plain and Fancy
title: 158; label: 4. What’s Missing?
title: 180; label: Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960–2004 Bradley Schauer and David Bordwell
title: 191; label: Notes
title: 243; label: Index
title: 273