The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

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Disappointingly, the film’s introduction of its dynamic protagonist is quite passive. At first, the restless camera takes its cues from the bustling of the newsmen, but then the film isolates the lone woman by photographing her in a different style: a glamorously lit, stationary medium close-up. Following the logic of so many Hollywood films, as analyzed by Laura Mulvey, the men move through a three-dimensional space, whereas the woman is trapped in two-dimensional stasis.

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