Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Insdorf, Annette
published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.
©2017.
Part of: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)
ISBN: 9780231544061
Edition: 1st ed.
Language: English
Part of: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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Print version:: Insdorf, Annette, Cinematic Overtures, New York : Columbia University Press,c2017
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Table of Contents

A great movie's first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. In Cinematic Overtures, Annette Insdorf discusses the opening sequence, inviting viewers to turn first impressions into deeper understanding of cinematic technique. She offers a series of revelatory readings of individual films by some of cinema's leading directors.

Intro
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Crafted Frame (Saul Bass, Talk to Her, Knife in the Water, Camouflage)
2. The Opening Translated from Literature (The Conformist, The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, All the President's Men, Cabaret)
3. Narrative Within the Frame: Mise-en-Scene and the Long Take (Touch of Evil, The Player, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Piano, Bright Star, In Darkness)
4. Narrative Between the Frames: Montage (Z
Hiroshima, mon amour
Seven Beauties
Schindler's List
Three Colors: Red
The Shipping News
Shine)
5. Singular Point of View (The Graduate, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Come and See, Lebanon, Good Kill)
6. The Collective Protagonist (La Ciudad, 3 Backyards, Little Miss Sunshine, Le Bal, Day for Night, A Separation, Where Do We Go Now?)
7. Misdirection/Visual Narration (The Hourglass Sanatorium, Before the Rain, Ajami, Under Fire, The Conversation, Rising Sun, Psycho, The Truman Show)
8. Voice-Over Narration/Flashback (Sunset Boulevard, American Beauty, Fight Club, Badlands)
Notes
Index
Color Plates.