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Film Art : An Introduction

ISBN: 9780070066342 | 0070066345
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Pub. Date: 8/1/1996

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Table of Contents
Prefaceix
PART I TYPES OF FILMMAKING, TYPES OF FILMS
The Work of Film Production
3(39)
Technical Factors in Film Production
... MORE(7)
Social Factors in Film Production
10(16)
Implications of Different Modes of Film Production
26(2)
After Production: Distribution and Exhibition
28(5)
Notes and Queries
33(9)
Types of Films
42(23)
Basic Types
42(9)
Film Genres
51(9)
Notes and Queries
60(5)
PART II FILM FORM
The Significance of Film Form
65(24)
The Concept of Form in Film
65(13)
Principles of Film Form
78(7)
Summary
85(1)
Notes and Queries
86(3)
Narrative as a Formal System
89(39)
Principles of Narrative Construction
89(12)
Narration: The Flow of Story Information
101(7)
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
108(2)
Narrative Form in Citizen Kane
110(13)
Summary
123(1)
Notes and Queries
124(4)
Nonnarrative Formal Systems
128(41)
Types of Nonnarrative Form
128(2)
Categorical Formal Systems
130(9)
Rhetorical Formal Systems
139(7)
Abstract Formal Systems
146(8)
Associational Formal Systems
154(9)
Summary
163(1)
Notes and Queries
164(5)
PART III FILM STYLE
The Shot: Mise-En-Scene
169(41)
What Is Mise-en-Scene?
169(1)
Realism
170(1)
The Power of Mise-en-Scene
171(1)
Aspects of Mise-en-Scene
172(17)
Mise-en-Scene in Space and Time
189(10)
Narrative Functions of Mise-en-Scene: Our Hospitality
199(6)
Summary
205(1)
Notes and Queries
205(5)
The Shot: Cinematography
210(60)
The Photographic Image
210(16)
Framing
226(32)
Duration of the Image: The Long Take
258(5)
Summary
263(1)
Notes and Queries
264(6)
The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
270(45)
What Editing Is
271(2)
Dimensions of Film Editing
273(11)
Continuity Editing
284(16)
Alternatives to Continuity Editing
300(10)
Summary
310(1)
Notes and Queries
310(5)
Sound in the Cinema
315(40)
The Powers of Sound
316(2)
Fundamentals of Film Sound
318(9)
Dimensions of Film Sound
327(14)
Functions of Film Sound: A Man Escaped
341(8)
Summary
349(1)
Notes and Queries
350(5)
Styles as a Formal System
355(28)
The Concept of Style
355(2)
Analyzing Film Style
357(3)
Style in Citizen Kane
360(8)
Style in Olympia, Part 2
368(3)
Style in The River
371(2)
Style in Ballet mecanique
373(3)
Style in A Movie
376(3)
Notes and Queries
379(4)
PART IV CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FILMS
Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
383(58)
The Classical Narrative Cinema
384(15)
His Girl Friday
384(4)
North by Northwest
388(5)
Do The Right Thing
393(6)
Narrative Alternatives to Classical Filmmaking
399(10)
Breathless (A Bout de souffle)
399(5)
Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari)
404(5)
Documentary Form and Style
409(11)
High School
409(6)
Man with a Movie Camera
415(5)
Form, Style, and Ideology
420(11)
Meet Me in St. Louis
420(6)
Raging Bull
426(5)
Appendix: Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film
431(5)
Notes and Queries
436(5)
PART V FILM HISTORY
Film Form and Film History
441(36)
Early Cinema (1893--1903)
442(3)
The Development of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (1908--1927)
445(4)
German Expressionism (1919--1926)
449(3)
French Impressionism and Surrealism (1918--1930)
452(4)
Soviet Montage (1924--1930)
456(4)
The Classical Hollywood Cinema after the Coming of Sound
460(2)
Italian Neorealism (1942--1951)
462(2)
The French New Wave (1959--1964)
464(4)
The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking
468(4)
Bibliography for Chapter 12
472(5)
Glossary477(6)
Internet Resources: Selected Reference Sites in Film from the World Wide Web483(2)
Credits485(2)
Index487

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