Bibliograph

Cinematic overtures, how to read opening scenes, Annette Insdorf

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Cinematic overtures, how to read opening scenes, Annette Insdorf

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cinematic overtures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989123749

Responsibility statement

Annette Insdorf

Series statement

Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures

Sub title

how to read opening scenes

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,--, from publisher data

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