How Camera Movement Dramatizes Speech In Cinema

This new video from Slate illustrates how a movie director can dramatize a monologue through the use of camera movement. In the video, Alisha Harris narrates several examples, including clips from movies such as Citizen Kane (1941), Night of the Hunter (1955), and Forrest Gump (1994).

[2024 Update:  Unfortunately, Slate’s video is not presently available.]

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