Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by 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 staples of narrative as the goal-oriented protagonist, the double plot-line, and dialogue hooks. She demonstrates that the "three-act structure", a concept widely used by practitioners and media commentators, fails to explain how Hollywood stories are put together.
Thompson then shows in detail how classical narrative techniques work in ten box-office and critical successes made since the New Hollywood began in the 1970s: Tootsie, Back to the Future, The Silence of the Lambs, Groundhog Day, Desperately Seeking Susan, Amadeus, The Hunt for Red October, Parenthood, Alien, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In passing, she suggests reasons for the apparent slump in quality in Hollywood films of the 1990s. The results will be of interest to movie fans, scholars, and film practitioners alike.
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- Title Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique
- Author Kristin Thompson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1999-11-05
- ISBN 9780674839755 / 0674839757
- Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.97 x 1.09 in (22.76 x 17.70 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture authorship, Motion picture plays - Technique
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99018427
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.23
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Citations
- Library Journal, 11/15/1999, Page 72
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