In his essay ‘The Film Text and Film Form’ in the Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Robert P. Kolker describes the key features of the Classical Hollywood Style as they were developed in the early years of Hollywood filmmaking. “The continuity style developed as a way to present a story in forward progression . Early filmmakers found that, as long as they contained some narrative glue, scenes placed side by side would be understood as occurring either simultaneously, earlier or later than one another. Shots of a woman held captive by a menacing male (or caught in some other dangerous situation).
