The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western Dollars Trilogy is an example of how these elements work together to produce a formalist effect: the shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end; the music builds.
[citation needed] Two examples of ideological interpretations that are related to formalism are the classical Hollywood cinema and film noir.
[citation needed] Classical Hollywood cinema uses a style referred to as the institutional mode of representation: continuity editing, massive coverage, three-point lighting, "mood" music, and dissolves.
– discuss], is marked by lower production values, darker images, under lighting, location shooting, and general nihilism: this is because during the war and post-war years filmmakers and filmgoers tended to have a pessimistic outlook.
Also, the German Expressionists[2] immigrated to America and brought their stylized lighting effects and disillusionment due to the war to American soil.