Understanding movies
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Understanding movies
Prentice Hall, c2002
9th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film and Drama.
Designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication, this book focuses on formalism-how the forms of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, photography, etc.) create meaning. It retains the same principle of organization as its predecessors-structuring chapters around the realism-formalism dichotomy-while it updates each chapter to integrate more recent developments, contemporary films, and personalities in the field.
Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Overview and concludes with a Further Reading section.)
1. Photography.
Realism and Formalism. The Shots. The Angles. Light and Dark. Color. Lenses, Filters, Stocks, Opticals, and Gauges. The Cinematographer.
2. Mise en Scene.
The Frame. Composition and Design. Territorial Space. Proxemic Patterns. Open and Closed Forms.
3. Movement.
Kinetics. The Moving Camera. Mechanical Distortions of Movement.
4. Editing.
Continuity. D.W. Griffith and Classical Cutting. Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition. Andre Bazin and the Tradition of Realism. Hitchcock's North by Northwest: Storyboard Version.
5. Sound.
Historical Background. Sound Effects. Music. Musicals and Opera. Spoken Language.
6. Acting.
Stage and Screen Acting. The American Star System. Styles of Acting. Casting.
7. Drama.
Time, Space, and Language. The Director. Settings and Decor. Costumes and Makeup.
8. Story.
Narratology. The Spectator. The Classical Paradigm. Realistic Narratives. Formalistic Narratives. Nonfictional Narratives. Genre and Myth.
9. Writing.
The Screenwriter. The Screenplay. North by Northwest: Reading Version. Figurative Comparisons. Point of View. Literary Adaptations.
10. Ideology.
The Left-Center-Right Model. Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity. Feminism. Gay Liberation. Tone.
11. Theory.
Theories of Realism. Formalist Film Theories. The Auteur Theory. Eclectic and Synthetic Theories. Structuralism and Semiology. Historiography.
12. Synthesis: Citizen Kane .
Photography. Mise en Scene. Movement. Editing. Sound. Acting. Drama. Story. Writing. Ideology. Theory.
Glossary.
Index.
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