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Understanding Movies
ISBN: 9780131890985 | 0131890980
Edition: 11thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice-Hall Press
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film Appreciation. Understanding Movies is the best selling film text on the market! Designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication, this book focuses on formalismhow the languages of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, lighting, story, photography, etc.) create meaning. Building on the same principle of organization as previous editionsstructuring chapters around the elements of filmthe new edition of this best seller offers a... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Photography | p. 1 |
| Overview | p. 2 |
| Realism and Formalism | p. 2 |
| The Shots | p. 11 |
| The Angles | p. 13 |
| Light and Dark | p. 18 |
| Color | p. 24 |
| Lenses, Filters, and Stocks | p. 29 |
| Special Effects | p. 35 |
| The Cinematographer | p. 39 |
| Further Reading | p. 46 |
| Mise en Scene | p. 47 |
| Overview | p. 48 |
| The Frame | p. 48 |
| Composition and Design | p. 60 |
| Territorial Space | p. 70 |
| Proxemic Patterns | p. 81 |
| Open and Closed Forms | p. 88 |
| Further Reading | p. 97 |
| Movement | p. 99 |
| Overview | p. 100 |
| Kinetics | p. 101 |
| The Moving Camera | p. 118 |
| Mechanical Distortions of Movement | p. 129 |
| Further Reading | p. 139 |
| Editing | p. 141 |
| Overview | p. 142 |
| Continuity | p. 142 |
| D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting | p. 147 |
| Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition | p. 163 |
| Andre Bazin and the Tradition of Realism | p. 178 |
| Hitchcock's North by Northwest: Storyboard Version | p. 191 |
| Further Reading | p. 216 |
| Sound | p. 217 |
| Overview | p. 218 |
| Historical Background | p. 218 |
| Sound Effects | p. 225 |
| Music | p. 229 |
| Musicals | p. 237 |
| Spoken Language | p. 241 |
| Further Reading | p. 254 |
| Acting | p. 255 |
| Overview | p. 256 |
| Stage and Screen Acting | p. 257 |
| The American Star System | p. 269 |
| Styles of Acting | p. 286 |
| Casting | p. 299 |
| Further Reading | p. 304 |
| Drama | p. 307 |
| Overview | p. 308 |
| Time, Space, and Language | p. 309 |
| The Director | p. 318 |
| Settings and Decor | p. 323 |
| Costumes and Makeup | p. 337 |
| Further Reading | p. 348 |
| Story | p. 349 |
| Overview | p. 350 |
| Narratology | p. 352 |
| The Spectator | p. 355 |
| The Classical Paradigm | p. 359 |
| Realistic Narratives | p. 364 |
| Formalistic Narratives | p. 368 |
| Nonfictional Narratives | p. 371 |
| Genre and Myth | p. 377 |
| Further Reading | p. 388 |
| Writing | p. 389 |
| Overview | p. 390 |
| The Screenwriter | p. 390 |
| The Screenplay | p. 398 |
| North by Northwest: Reading Version | p. 403 |
| Figurative Comparisons | p. 409 |
| Point of View | p. 418 |
| Literary Adaptations | p. 421 |
| Further Reading | p. 426 |
| Ideology | p. 427 |
| Overview | p. 428 |
| The Left-Center-Right Model | p. 434 |
| Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity | p. 443 |
| Feminism | p. 454 |
| Gay Liberation | p. 462 |
| Tone | p. 468 |
| Further Reading | p. 471 |
| Critique | p. 473 |
| Overview | p. 474 |
| Theories of Realism | p. 476 |
| Formalist Film Theories | p. 483 |
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Louis Giannetti is a Professor Emeritus of English and Film at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
