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Film Art: An Introduction, 7/e

David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kristin Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ISBN: 0072484551
Copyright year: 2004

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Table of Contents (351.0K)

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 Queries

Part 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 Queries

Part Three: Types of Films

Chapter Four - Film Genres
Understanding Genre
Box: A Contemporary Genre: The Crime Thriller
Three Genres
Summary
Notes and Queries

Chapter Five - Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
Documentary
Experimental Film
The Animated Film
Summary
Notes and Queries

Part 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 Queries

Chapter 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 Queries

Chapter 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 Queries

Chapter 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 Queries

Chapter 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 Queries

Part 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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