Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

2. The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin

3. Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's The Adventurer

4. The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday

5. Expressive Realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

6. Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief

7. Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut's The 400 Blows

8. Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious

9. The European Art Film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

10. Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall

11. Political Cinema: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

12. Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

13. Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar

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