Film Analysis PA

by Rutsky,R. L.

• ISBN13: 9780393979831
• ISBN10: 0393979830
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-15
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Written with undergraduate readers in mind, these essays cover the central issues raised in today's cinema courses and provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and film-analysis skills. Film Analysis also includes a helpful introduction and an extensive glossary. Already half the price of competing texts when purchased alone, Film Analysis can be packaged at 50 percent off with either A History of Narrative Film or Looking at Movies .

Table of Contents

Alphabetical Table of Contents	9	(13)
Preface	13	(4)
Introduction	17	(25)
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895--1897), Lumiere Brothers	42	(22)
Karin Littau
A Trip to the Moon (1902), Georges Melies	64	(18)
Tom Gunning
The Birth of a Nation (1915), D. W. Griffith	82	(16)
Daniel Bernardi
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene	98	(20)
Paul Coates
Nanook of the North (1922), Robert J. Flaherty	118	(20)
Jeffrey Geiger
Sherlock Jr. (1924), Buster Keaton	138	(20)
Hal Gladfelder
Battleship Potemkin (1926), Sergei Eisenstein	158	(20)
Bill Nichols
Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang	178	(18)
R. L. Rutsky
Un chien andalou (1929), Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali	196	(20)
Tom Conley
It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra	216	(22)
Richard Maltby
Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin	238	(22)
Charles J. Maland
Osaka Elegy (1936), Mizoguchi Kenji	260	(22)
Joanne Bernardi
Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks	282	(18)
S. I. Salamensky
The Rules of the Game (1939), Jean Renoir	300	(19)
Christopher Faulkner
Stagecoach (1939), John Ford	319	(21)
Matthew Bernstein
Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles	340	(22)
James Naremore
Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz	362	(18)
Dana Polan
Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder	380	(20)
Gaylyn Studlar
Rome Open City (1945), Roberto Rossellini	400	(22)
Marcia Landy
Bicycle Thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica	422	(18)
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Singin' in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly	440	(16)
Jane Feuer
Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro	456	(18)
David Desser
Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock	474	(20)
Elizabeth Cowie
Seven Samurai (1954), Kurosawa Akira	494	(16)
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray	510	(18)
Neepa Majumdar
The Seventh Seal (1956), Ingmar Bergman	528	(22)
Marilyn Johns Blackwell
The 400 Blows (1959), Francois Truffaut	550	(16)
Alastair Phillips
Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard	566	(16)
Richard Neupert
8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini	582	(20)
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick	602	(20)
Robert Kolker
The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola	622	(18)
Jon Lewis
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder	640	(20)
Shohini Chaudhuri
Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski	660	(18)
Steve Neale
The Last Supper (1976), Tomas Gutierrez Alea	678	(18)
Gilberto M. Blasini
Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese	696	(20)
Cynthia Fuchs
Ceddo (1977), Ousmane Sembene	716	(22)
Philip Rosen
Peking Opera Blues (1986), Tsui Hark	738	(18)
Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
Yeelen (1987), Souleymane Cisse	756	(20)
N. Frank Ukadike
Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee	776	(18)
Sharon Willis
Close-up (1989), Abbas Kiarostami	794	(20)
Hamid Naficy
To Sleep with Anger (1990), Charles Burnett	814	(16)
Valerie Smith
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Zhang Yimou	830	(20)
Shuqin Cui
Daughters of the Dust (1991), Julie Dash	850	(22)
Anna Everett
All About My Mother (1999), Pedro Almodovar	872	(19)
Paul Julian Smith
Glossary of Critical Terms	891	(24)
Contributors	915	(6)
Photo Credits	921	(2)
Index	923