The Hidden Art of Hollywood

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This book provides readers with a new means of appreciating classic American movies.While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, already established, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films - which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare - are taken as seriously as they are. Although we tend t...

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This book provides readers with a new means of appreciating classic American movies.While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, already established, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films - which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare - are taken as seriously as they are. Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong and often didactic messages, Hollywood is resolutely light-hearted in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in order to appreciate classic American movies, we have to understand them as the result of a style of filmmaking that justifies itself not through ideas or social relevance, but through the grace and beauty of its form.The beauty of the Hollywood film challenges our notion of film as the poorer cousin of the 'high arts,' or as worthwhile only when it serves a social purpose. In his effort to answer the many questions that classic American cinema suggests, the author considers previous criticism of Hollywood, but also draws from a huge fund of recorded interviews with the directors, writers, cinematographers, set designers, producers, and actors who were a part of the studio process, in order to give the filmmakers themselves the chance to explain a very elusive phenomenon: the glancing beauty of the Hollywood film. The films of certain great auteurs, including Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, and Orson Welles, receive particular attention here, but this book is organized by ideas rather than films or artists, and it draws from a wide array of Hollywood films, both successes and failures, to make its points.

The Hidden Art of Hollywood是2008年由Praeger出版,作者JohnFawell。

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