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Choices In The Editing Room: How The Intentional Editing Of Dialogue Scenes Through Shot Choice Can Enhance Story And Character Development Within Motion Pictures, Jonathan Pfenninger
Choices In The Editing Room: How The Intentional Editing Of Dialogue Scenes Through Shot Choice Can Enhance Story And Character Development Within Motion Pictures, Jonathan Pfenninger
Masters Theses
This study examines the content of six feature length films, which showed in theaters in 2010 and 2011, from a communication perspective. Five of the scrutinized films are Academy Award winning and nominated films for Best Editing. The sixth film was the top grossing Christian feature film to be widely released within the two years. Utilizing Foss's rhetorical schema for the evaluation of visual imagery, this study examines and evaluates the composition of dialogue scenes within each film, identifying the functions of shot composition and movement choices within each film, individually. Through identification of a function, assessment and support found …
Economies Of Desire: Reimagining Noir In Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, Ria Banerjee
Economies Of Desire: Reimagining Noir In Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, Ria Banerjee
Publications and Research
This essay argues that Nicholas Ray reimagines the conventions of the film noir genre in his movie, They Live By Night. This book chapter is part of a study of director Nicholas Ray's oeuvre, Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, eds. Steve Rybin and Will Scheibel. New York: SUNY Press, 2014