Storytelling in the New Hollywood Understanding Classical Narrative Technique

Name: Storytelling in the New Hollywood Understanding Classical Narrative Technique
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ISBN: 9780674839755

ISBN-10: 0674839757

ISBN-13: 9780674839755

Edition: 1999

Authors: Kristin Thompson

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In a book as entertaining as it is enlightening, Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. She also takes on the myth that modern Hollywood films are based on a narrative system radically different from the one in use during the Golden Age of the studio system. Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990s--from Keaton's Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2--Thompson explains such staples of narrative as the goal-oriented protagonist, the double plot-line, and dialogue hooks. She domonstrates that the "three-act structure," a concept…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Preface



Modern Classicism



Tootsie



Back to the Future



The Silence of the Lambs



Groundhog Day



Desperately Seeking Susan



Amadeus



The Hunt for Red October



Parenthood



Alien



Hannah and Her Sisters



Hopes and Fears for Hollywood



Large-scale Portions of Classical Films



Bombs, or What Makes Bad Films Bad?


Notes


Index