Closely Watched Films : An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv 1 The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 1(18) 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin 19(18) 3 Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's The Adventurer 37(22) 4 The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday 59(19) 5 Expressive Realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane 78(21) 6 Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief 99(21) 7 Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut's The 400 Blows 120(15) 8 Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious 135(17) 9 The European Art Film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 152(21) 10 Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall 173(18) 11 Political Cinema: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing 191(16) 12 Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing 207(21) 13 Epilogue: Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode 228(15) Notes 243(16) Glossary 259(8) Bibliography 267(6) Index 273