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2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction xv
- 1. The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation 1
- 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin 19
- 3. Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin’s The Adventurer 37
- 4. The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday 59
- 5. Expressive Realism: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane 78
- 6. Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief 99
- 7. Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows 120
- 8. Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious 135
- 9. The European Art Film: Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 152
- 10. Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen’s Annie Hall 173
- 11. Political Cinema: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing 191
- 12. Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing 207
- 13. Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis’s Timecode and James Cameron’s Avatar 228
- Notes 253
- Glossary 271
- Bibliography 279
- Index 287
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction xv
- 1. The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation 1
- 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin 19
- 3. Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin’s The Adventurer 37
- 4. The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday 59
- 5. Expressive Realism: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane 78
- 6. Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief 99
- 7. Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows 120
- 8. Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious 135
- 9. The European Art Film: Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 152
- 10. Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen’s Annie Hall 173
- 11. Political Cinema: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing 191
- 12. Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing 207
- 13. Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis’s Timecode and James Cameron’s Avatar 228
- Notes 253
- Glossary 271
- Bibliography 279
- Index 287