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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Edition: Tenth anniversary editionDescription: xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520279971
  • 0520279972
  • 9780520959019
  • 0520959019
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43015 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E9 F17 2014
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: Fran�cois 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 -- Digital video and new forms of narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar.
Summary: "Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.

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: Fran�cois 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 -- Digital video and new forms of narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar.

"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.

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