{"product_id":"all-the-presidents-men-9781839024047","title":"All the President's Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan J. Pakula's political thriller \u003ci\u003eAll the President's Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey argue that the film does not fit the auteurist model of New Hollywood film-makers such as Coppola and Scorsese. Instead, \u003ci\u003eAll the President's Men \u003c\/i\u003emore 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Keathley\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound \u0026amp; Image\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). His writing has been published in journals such as \u003ci\u003eScreen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMOVIE\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert B. Ray\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is author of\u003ci\u003e A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), \u003ci\u003eThe Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eHow a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThe ABCs of Classic Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eWalden X 40: Essays on Thoreau \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Complex Images \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497822916882,"sku":"9781839024047","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_09dc9227-9cc4-4465-8b64-5cd52e2e533a.jpg?v=1730721180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-the-presidents-men-9781839024047","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}