Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema.
 
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 Potter, a 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 resulted in a family blockbuster layered with thematic insights.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema.
 
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 Potter, a 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 resulted in a family blockbuster layered with thematic insights.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by Patrick Keating
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by Patrick Keating

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This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema.
 
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 Potter, a 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 resulted in a family blockbuster layered with thematic insights.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781477323144
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 02/24/2022
Series: 21st Century Film Essentials
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 186
Sales rank: 949,690
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Patrick Keating is a professor of communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he teaches courses in film and media studies. He is the author of Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir and The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood and the editor of the essay collection Cinematography.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPoint of View in the NovelsNovel to ScreenplayCamera, Perspective, and Point of ViewActors and AuthorshipDesigning a WorldSound Design and MusicConclusion AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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John Alberti

Keating’s lucid and accessible style is one of the hallmarks of this book. He writes like a born teacher, and in describing how Cuarón recreates Rowling’s gifts for suspense and narrative momentum, he creates his own sense of suspense and anticipation for his next revelation about the magic of cinema.

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