Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.
By: Bordwell, David
Contributor(s): Thompson, Kristin
Publisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2004Edition: Seventh EditionDescription: xx, 532 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0072484551 (acidfree paper); 0071215921 (international ed. : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Motion pictures -- AestheticsDDC classification: 791.4301 LOC classification: PN1995 | .B617 2004| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"The international edition is not available in North America"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I: Film production, distribution and exhibition --
Film production, distribution, and exhibition --
Mechanics of the movies --
Bringing a film to the spectator --
Box: Independent production and mainstream Hollywood: The case of good machine --
Making the movie: film production --
Modes of production --
pt. 2: Film form --
The significance of film form --
The concept of form in film --
Principles of film form --
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 --
pt. 3: Types of film --
Film genres --
Understanding genre --
Box: A contemporary genre: the crime thriller --
Three genres --
Documentary, experimental, and animated films --
pt. 4: Film style --
The shot: mise-en-scene --
What is mise-en-scene? --
Realism --
The power of mise-en-scene --
Aspects of mise-en-scene --
Box: The film actor's tool kit --
Mise-en-scene in space and time --
Narrative functions of mise-en-scene: Our hospitality --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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 Mécanique --
Style in A movie --
pt. 5: Critical analysis of films --
11. Film criticism: sample analyses --
The classical narrative cinema --
Narrative alternatives to classical filmmaking --
Documentary form and style --
Form, style and ideology --
pt. 6: Film history --
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.
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthethic all its own, and since 1979 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's 'Film Art' has been the most respected introduction to and analysis of cinema. In this 7th edition, the book has been extensively re-designed to improve readability.
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