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02275aam a2200397 i 4500 001 C7DCCBB4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170605s2017 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017009183 020 $a 0231182244 020 $a 9780231182249 020 $a 0231182252 020 $a 9780231182256 035 $a (OCoLC)989123749 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d ORX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NYP $d BKL $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1994 I4645 2017 100 1 $a Insdorf, Annette, $e author. 245 10 $a Cinematic overtures : $b how to read opening scenes / $c Annette Insdorf. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 188 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. 520 8 $a 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,-- $c from publisher data. 650 0 $a Motion pictures. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Technique. $x Technique. 650 0 $a Motion picture plays $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Openings (Rhetoric) 830 0 $a University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures. 941 $a 3 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20190329010253.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116030438.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403020549.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C7DCCBB4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search