All the President's Men

Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial...
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Author: Robert B. Ray
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Language: English
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All the President's Men by Ray, Robert B.

All the President's Men

€25,27

All the President's Men

€25,27
Author: Robert B. Ray
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.

Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark vs. well-lit scenes and shallow vs. deep focus, tracing how these elements combine to create an underlying formal design crucial to the film's achievement.

They argue that the film does not fit the auteurist model of New Hollywood film-makers such as Coppola and Scorsese. Instead, All the President's Men more closely resembles a studio-era film, the result of a collaboration between a producer (Robert Redford), multiple scriptwriters, a skilful director, important stars (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), a distinctive cameraman (Gordon Willis), an imaginative art director (George Jenkins) and ingenious sound designers, who together created an enduringly great film.

Author: Robert B. Ray, Christian Keathley
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 05/04/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 7.49h x 5.46w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781839024047

About the Author

Christian Keathley is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He is author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (2005) and co-author of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (2016). His writing has been published in journals such as Screen and MOVIE.

Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (1985), The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy (1995), How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies (2001), The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (2008), Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau (2012) and The Structure of Complex Images (2020).

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