The way Hollywood tells it : story and style in modern movies

The way Hollywood tells it : story and style in modern movies /

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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 Beauti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bordwell, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion picture industry > United States > History.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Cinéma > Esthétique.
Cinéma > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Filmkunst.
Vertelkunst.
Film.
United States.
USA.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beyond the blockbuster
  • pt. 1: A real story
  • Continuing tradition, by any means necessary
  • Pushing the premises
  • Subjective stories and network narratives
  • A certain amount of plot: tentpoles, locomotives, blockbusters, megapictures, and the action movie
  • pt. 2: A stylish style
  • Intensified continuity: four dimensions
  • Some likely sources
  • Style, plain and fancy
  • What's missing?
  • Appendix: A Hollywood timeline, 1960-2004.

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