Abstract
List of Illustrations 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: Francois 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. Epilogue: Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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