The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell, David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson

The Classical Hollywood Cinema

David Bordwell, David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson

652 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Despite differences of director, genre or studio, most Hollywood films operate within a set of shared assumptions about how a film should look and sound. Such assumptions are neither natural nor inevitable; but because classical-style films have b...

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