doxa.comunicación | nº 31, pp. 207-238 | 221

July-December of 2020

Ana Isabel Cea Navas and Sergio García Rubio

ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978

3.2. The man who wasn’t there

Summer 1949. Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), an introverted barber in a small Northern California town, is unsatisfied with his life. His wife’s (Frances McDormand) affairs enable him to use blackmail to change his apathetic existence6.

3.2.1. Frequency of frames and close-ups

During the first scene (42 minutes and 53 seconds), the analysis of The Man who wasn’t there reveals that close-ups are the most used frames, which coincides with Fargo. Specifically, 247 times compared to the overall 346 frames.

Graph 3: Percentages on the type of framing

Source: created by the authors