Understanding movies
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Understanding movies
Allyn & Bacon, c2011
12th ed
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Updated in a new 12th edition , this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences.
This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog Millionaire to Transformers. this book provides readers with a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them through contemporary coverage
Table of Contents
Preface.
1. PHOTOGRAPHY: Overview.
Realism and Formalism.
The Shots.
The Angles.
Light and Dark.
Color.
Lenses, Filters, and Stocks.
Special Effects.
The Cinematographer.
Further reading.
2. MISE EN SCENE: Overview.
The Frame.
Composition and Design.
Territorial Space.
Proxemic Patters.
Open and Closed Forms.
Further Reading.
3. MOVEMENT: Overview.
Kinetics.
The Moving Camera.
Mechanical Distortions of Movement.
Further Reading.
4. EDITING: Overview.
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.
Further Reading.
5. SOUND: Overview.
Historical Background.
Sound Effects.
Music.
Musicals.
Spoken Language.
Further Reading.
6. ACTING: Overview.
Stage and Screen Acting.
The American Star System.
Styles of Acting. Casting.
Further Reading.
7. DRAMA: Overview.
Time, Space, Language.
The Director.
Settings and Decor.
Costumes and Makeup.
Further Reading.
8. STORY: Overview.
Narration.
The Spectator.
The Classical Paradigm.
Realistic Narratives.
Formalist Narratives.
Nonfiction Narratives.
Genre and Myth.
Further Reading.
9. WRITING. Overview.
The Screenwriter.
The Screenplay.
North by Northwest: Reading Version.
Figurative Comparisons.
Point of View.
Literary Adaptations.
Further Reading.
10. IDEOLOGY: Overview.
The-Left-Center-Right Model.
Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity.
Feminism.
Queer Cinema.
Tone.
Further Reading.
11. CRITIQUE: Overview.
Theories of Realism.
Formalist Film Theories.
The Auteur Theory.
Eclectic and Synthesizing Approaches.
Structuralism and Semiology.
Historiography.
Further Reading.
12. SYNTHESIS: CITIZEN KANE: Overview.
Photography.
Mise en Scene.
Movement.
Editing.
Sound.
Acting.
Drama.
Story.
Writing.
Ideology.
Critique.
Further Reading.
Glossary.
Index.
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