pAn essential work of twenty-first-century cinema, Alfonso Cuar n's 2004 film emHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanem 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.ppIn this book, Patrick Keating examines how Cuar n 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 Cuar n's direction as a collaborative achievement that resulted in a fa