Classicism and Deviation in His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Berliner
Keyword(s):  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Cognitive Challenge ◽  
Classical Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Double Indemnity ◽  
Classical Hollywood

Chapter 2 illustrates an aesthetically productive balance between easy understanding and cognitive challenge in classical Hollywood cinema with extended analyses of His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity. These films combine classical narrative, stylistic, ideological, and genre properties with artistic devices that complicate formal patterning and thwart audience expectations.

Rewriting Ibsen for the big screen

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audun Engelstad
Keyword(s):  
Silent Film ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Henrik Ibsen ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood

Henrik Ibsen is regarded as the champion of realist theatre. In the early days of cinema, there were several silent film adaptations of Ibsen’s plays. One would think, given his standing as a playwright, that there would be a continuous interest in Ibsen’s work after the conversion to sound. This article examines how the realist theatre – heralded by Ibsen – relates to classical (Hollywood) cinema and how Ibsen in various ways has been rewritten and has recently re-emerged within contemporary cinema.

An Aesthetics of Aggression: German Fascist vs. Classical Hollywood Melodrama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heins
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Aggressive Form ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Face ◽  
Classical Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood

This chapter attempts to delineate the generic and aesthetic differences between film melodrama in Third Reich and classical Hollywood cinema, and to a lesser extent, between German and Italian Fascist film. Hollywood cinema's greater emphasis on the communicative codes of mise-en-scène, dynamic editing, and camera movement was countered in Nazi cinema with a greater stress on bodily displays and a theatrical acting style that subordinated the intimacy of the face in close-up to the authority of the actor's voice and scripted dialogue. Subtle formal and narrative differences in the Nazi melodrama also encouraged a more aggressive form of voyeurism than was common in the Hollywood melodrama. Instead of the masochistic aesthetic of many Hollywood melodramas, therefore, the Nazi melodrama distinguished itself by its formally encoded appeals to spectatorial sadism and by the masculinity of its pathos.

The Classical Hollywood Cinema

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bordwell ◽  
Janet Staiger ◽  
Kristin Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood
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