附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) 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: François 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 -- Epilogue: digital video and new forms of narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode.
摘要:How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? 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. Ranging from D. W. Griffith''s The Birth of a Nation to James Cameron's Avatar, and ending with an epilogue on digital media, Closely Watched Films focuses on exemplary works of fourteen film directors whose careers together span the history of the narrative film. Lively and down-to-earth, this concise introduction provi.
