On film-making : an introduction to the craft of the director /
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| Author / Creator: | Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993 |
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| Imprint: | London : Faber and Faber, 2004. |
| Description: | xxxix, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5673752 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part 1. Dramatic Construction
- The Pre-Verbal Language of Cinema
- What is a Story?
- Exposition
- Modernist Trends
- A Technique for Having Ideas
- Slogans for the Screenwriter's Wall
- Exercises for the Student of Dramatic Construction
- When Not to Write a Shooting Script
- Once Upon a Time...
- Activity versus Action
- Dramatic Irony
- William Archer Revisited
- Plausibility and Willing Suspension of Disbelief
- Density and Subplots in Sweet Smell of Success
- Cutting Dialogue
- The Solomon Exercise
- The Director and the Actor
- Part 2. Film Grammar
- The Invisible Imaginary Ubiquitous Winged Witness
- How to be Meaningless
- Mental Geography
- Condensing Screen Time
- Drawing Lesson
- Point of View
- The Axis
- Shot-to-Shot Relationships
- Camera Coverage
- Camera Movement
- Citizen Kane
- Epilogue