EAN: 9781839024047

ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN - ROBERT B RAY CHRISTIAN...

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.

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