This dissertation is named "Produção de Suspense nos Thrillers do Cinema Americano (1940-1980) – Formas e Métodos de Montagem". The main subject of the dissertation is the cinematographic montage, in which are explored the best ways and methods of montage of the directors in the American Cinema context, in order to produce suspense in their movies. In the context of the theme under study, they will be analised movies and processes of montage of directors that marked the thrillers of the American Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Michael Curtiz, Orson Welles e Stanley Kubrick. Through the methods of parallel montage, montage through the point of view, pacing (rhythm) and jump cut, will be analyzed scenes of the following movies: Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock), Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese), The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola), The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) and Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles). The methodology of this work is based on the research of cientific articles and books related with the subject of the dissertation and in the visualization and movie analysis. To explore the best ways and methods of montage, it will be explored some editing books like “Cutting Rhytms: Shaping The Film Edit” (2006) from Karen Pearlman and “A Estética da Montagem” (2010) from Vicent Amiel. Searching the american cinema and its filmmakers it will be used some books like “American Cinema Of The 1960s: Themes and Variations” (2008) from Barry Keith Grant; “American Cinema Of The 1970s: Themes and Variations” (2007) from Lester D. Friedman; “American Cinema Of The 1980s: Themes and Variations” (2007) from Alexander Wolker; “Stanley Kubrick Directs” (1972) from Alexander Walker; “Hitchcock” (1985) from François Truffaut; “Thrillers: Genres In American Cinema” (1999), from Martin Rubin; “A Cinema Of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Altman” (1988) from Robert Phillip Kolker; “A Companion To Martin Scorsese” (2014), from Aaron Baker; “The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia” (2010) from James Welsh, among others.
Date of Award | 30 Jan 2017 |
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Original language | Portuguese |
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Awarding Institution | - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Supervisor | Carlos Ruiz Carmona (Supervisor) |
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Produção de suspense nos thrillers do cinema americano: 1940-1980 : formas e métodos de montagem
Almeida, F. A. M. G. D. (Student). 30 Jan 2017
Student thesis: Master's Thesis