Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique/
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Berkeley; Los Angeles:
University of California Press,
[c2004]
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Table of 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: Francois 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.