Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique,

by Kristin Thompson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674839749
• ISBN13: 9780674839748
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.