Film Analysis: A Casebook (Hardcover)

Preface vii Chapter 1. F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922, Germany) 1 Chapter 2. Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937, France) 12 Chapter 3. Carl-Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath (1943, Denmark) 23 Chapter 4. Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine (1946, Italy) 34 Chapter 5. Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953, France) 42 Chapter 6. Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954, USA) 52 Chapter 7. Agnes Varda's La Pointe Courte (1954, France) 60 Chapter 8. Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959, England) 69 Chapter 9. Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura (1960, Italy) 80 Chapter 10. Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light (1962, Sweden) 91 Chapter 11. Jiøí Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia) 98 Chapter 12. Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967, USA) 108 Chapter 13. Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Australia) 120 Chapter 14. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Germany) 131 Chapter 15. Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Japan) 140 Chapter 16. Idrissa Ouedraogo's Yaaba (1989, Burkina Faso) 151 Chapter 17. Aki Kaurismaki's The Match Factory Girl (1989, Finland) 158 Chapter 18. Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou (1990, China) 166 Chapter 19. Sergei Bodrov's Prisoner of the Mountains (1996, Russia) 174 Chapter 20. Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry (1997, Iran) 186 Chapter 21. Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Canada) 197 Chapter 22. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's The Son (2002, Belgium) 209 Chapter 23. Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven (2005, Mexico) 217 Chapter 24. Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective (2009, Romania) 226 Chapter 25. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Turkey) 236 Film Credits and Directors' Filmographies 248 Topics for Writing and Discussion 269 Glossary of Film Terms 275 Bibliography: Film Analysis 281 Index 284