An essential work of twenty-first-century cinema, Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging elements of the novel while artfully translating its literary point of view into cinematic terms that expand on the world established in the book series and previous films.
In this book, Patrick Keating examines how Cuarón and his collaborators employ cinematography, production design, music, performance, costume, dialogue, and more to create the richly textured world of Harry Pottera world filtered principally through Harry's perspective, characterized by gaps, uncertainties, and surprises. Rather than upholding the vision of a single auteur, Keating celebrates Cuarón's direction as a collaborative achievement that res
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Keating has produced not only a subtle, supple analysis of the film but also a model for how to understand cinematic storytelling in the age of the blockbuster. * David Bordwell's Website on Cinema *
Table of Contents
IntroductionPoint of View in the NovelsNovel to ScreenplayCamera, Perspective, and Point of ViewActors and AuthorshipDesigning a WorldSound Design and MusicConclusion AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
