Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique

Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation......Page 20
2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin......Page 38
3 Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin’s The Adventurer......Page 56
4 The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday......Page 78
5 Expressive Realism: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane......Page 97
6 Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief......Page 118
7 Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows......Page 139
8 Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious......Page 154
9 The European Art Film: Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2......Page 171
10 Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen’s Annie Hall......Page 192
11 Political Cinema: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing......Page 210
12 Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing......Page 226
13 Epilogue: Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative in Mike Figgis’s Timecode......Page 247
Notes......Page 262
Glossary......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 286
Index......Page 292