Becoming film literate : the art and craft of motion pictures
Offers an entertaining and educational guide to the filmmaking process, through the lens of fifty landmark films that epitomize fifty key aspects of the art of cinema
1 online resource (xviii, 384 pages) : illustrations
9780313088681, 0313088683
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Non-linear storytelling: Amores Perros
Transformation of the American comedy: Annie Hall
Tableau narrative structure and sound design: Apocalypse now
The body as cinematic landscape: L'Avventura
Editing
Russian montage: The battleship Potemkin
Italian neorealism: The bicycle thief
Production design: Blade runner
Dream state: Blue velvet
The period film as mirror for the present: Bonnie and Clyde
Expressionism in cinema: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Classical Hollywood film style: Casablanca
Surrealism in cinema: Un chien Andalou
The authorial voice: Citizen Kane
Shot structure: The crowd
Thematic unity: The Decalogue
Mythopoetic film: Dog star man
Political objectives through cinematic storytelling: Do the right thing
Film noir: Double indemnity
The personal film: 8 1/2
Animation and music: Fantasia
An American musical: 42nd Street
New York filmmaking: The French connection
Period comedy: The general
Parallel storytelling: Intolerance
French New Wave: Jules and Jim
The epic: Lawrence of Arabia
The political thriller: The Manchurian candidate
Self-referential cinema: Man with a movie camera
Architecture in production design: Metropolis
Roots of documentary film: Nanook of the North
Multiplot, multicharacter narrative: Nashville
Method acting: On the waterfront
The close-up: The passion of Joan of Arc
Dark side of American cinema: Psycho
Subtext in personal expression: Raging bull
Multiple point-of-view narrative: Rashomon
Widescreen filmmaking: Rebel without a cause
Camera movement as metaphor: La Ronde
Mise-en-scène: Rules of the game
Direct cinema: Salesman
The Freudian western: The searchers
Defining, theme, metaphor, and character through color, texture, and environmental design: Se7en
Symbolism in the cinema: The seventh seal
Art of the B movie: Shock corridor
Digital filmmaking: Star wars: Episode II
Attack of the clones
Birth of a nonfiction film style: The thin blue line
Experimental narrative: 2001: a space odyssey
The essay film: Weekend
Screen violence as metaphor: The wild bunch
Independent filmmaking: A woman under the influence
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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