Understanding movies /
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| Author / Creator: | Giannetti, Louis D. |
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Imprint: | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1987. |
| Description: | xiii, 482 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8355913 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Photography
- Overview
- Realism and Formalism
- The Shots
- The Angles
- Light and Dark
- Color
- Lenses, Filters, Stocks, Opticals, and Gauges
- The Cinematographer
- Further Reading
- 2. Mise en Scene
- Overview
- The Frame
- Composition and Design
- Territorial Space
- Proxemic Patterns
- 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 and Opera
- 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, and Language
- The Director
- Settings and Decor
- Costumes and Makeup
- Further Reading
- 8. Story
- Overview
- Narratology
- The Spectator
- The Classical Paradigm
- Realistic Narratives
- Formalistic Narratives
- Nonfictional 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
- Gay Liberation
- Tone
- Further Reading
- 11. Theory
- Overview
- Theories of Realism
- Formalist Film Theories
- The Auteur Theory
- Eclectic and Synthetic Theories
- Structuralism and Semiology
- Historiography
- Further Reading
- 12. Synthesis: Citizen Kane
- Photography
- Mise en Scene
- Movement
- Editing
- Sound
- Acting
- Drama
- Story
- Writing
- Ideology
- Theory
- Further Reading
- Glossary
- Index