Cinematic overtures : how to read opening scenes /

Cinematic overtures : how to read opening scenes /

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Author / Creator:	Insdorf, Annette, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Description:	xi, 188 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Subject:	Motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Technique. Motion picture plays -- History and criticism. Openings (Rhetoric) Motion pictures.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11371488

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ISBN:	9780231182249 0231182244 9780231182256 0231182252
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	A great movie's first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. ..., they draw the viewer in, setting up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. [Some] sequences lead the viewer to trust the filmmakers. Other times, opening shots are intentionally misleading....From Joe Gillis's voice-over in Sunset Boulevard as he lies dead in a swimming pool to the hallucinatory opening of Apocalypse Now, from the stream-of-consciousness montage as found in Hiroshima, Mon Amour to the slowly unfolding beginning of Schindler's List, [the book] analyzes opening shots from a range of Hollywood as well as international films. Including dozens of frame enlargements that illustrate the strategies of opening scenes,--

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Call Number:	PN1994 .I4645 2017
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