David Bordwell,
University of Wisconsin, Madison Kristin Thompson,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
ISBN: 0072484551 Copyright year: 2004
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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Part One: Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition
Chapter One - Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition
Mechanics of the Movies
Bringing the Film to the Spectator
Box: Independent Production and Mainstream Hollywood: The Case of Good Machine
Making the Movie: Film Production
Modes of Production
Notes and QueriesPart Two: Film Form
Chapter Two - The Significance of Film Form
The Concept of Form in Film
Principles of Film Form
Summary
Notes and Queries
Chapter Three - Narrative as a Formal System
Principles of Narrative Construction
Box: Playing Games with Story Time
Narration: The Flow of Story Information
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Narrative Form in Citizen Kane
Summary
Notes and QueriesPart Three: Types of Films
Chapter Four - Film Genres Understanding Genre
Box: A Contemporary Genre: The Crime Thriller
Three Genres
Summary
Notes and QueriesChapter Five - Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
Documentary
Experimental Film
The Animated Film Summary
Notes and QueriesPart Four: Film Style
Chapter Six - The Shot: Mise-en-Scene What Is Mise-en-Scene?
Realism
The Film Actor's Tool Kit
The Power of Mise-en-Scene
Aspects of Mise-en-Scene
Box: The Film Actor's Tool Kit
Putting It All Together: Mise-en-Scene in Space and Time
Narrative Function of Mise-en-Scene: Our Hospitality Summary
Notes and QueriesChapter Seven - The Shot: Cinematography
The Photographic Image
Box: From Monsters to the Mundane: Computer-Generated Imagery in The Lord of the Rings
Framing
Duration of the Image: The Long Take Summary
Notes and QueriesChapter Eight - The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
What Editing Is
Dimensions of Film Editing
Continuity Editing
Box: Intensified Continuity: L.A. Confidential and Contemporary Editing
Alternatives to Continuity Editing Summary
Notes and QueriesChapter Nine - Sound in the Cinema
The Powers of Sound
Fundamentals of Film Sound
Dimensions of Film Sound
Box: Rhythm on Two Tracks: A Dance of Death in The Last of the Mohicans
Functions of Film Sound: A Man Escaped Summary Notes and QueriesChapter Ten - Style as a Formal System
The Concept of Style
Analyzing Film Style
Style in Citizen Kane
Style in Gap-Toothed Women
Style in The River
Style in Ballet Mecanique
Style in A Movie Notes and QueriesPart Five: Critical Analysis of Films
Chapter Eleven - Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
The Classical Narrative Cinema
Narrative Alternatives to Classical Filmmaking
Documentary Form and Style
Form, Style, and Ideology Notes and Queries
Part Six: Film History
Chapter Twelve - Film Form and Film History
Early Cinema (1893-1903)
The Development of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (1908-1927)
German Expressionism (1919-1926)
French Impressionism and Surrealism (1918-1930)
Soviet Montage (1924-1930)
The Classical Hollywood Cinema after the Coming of Sound
Italian Neorealism (1942-1951)
The French New Wave (1959-1964)
The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking
Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Bibliography for Chapter Twelve Notes and Queries
Glossary
Credits
Index
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