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How to Read a Film The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media

by: Monaco, James

How to Read a Film The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media

by: Monaco, James

ISBN 13:
9780195028027
ISBN 10:
0195028023
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 06/11/1981
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Now thoroughly revised and updated, the book discusses recent breakthroughs in media technology, including such exciting advances as video discs and cassettes, two-way television, satellites, cable and much more.

Film as an Art

(47)

The Nature of Art

(4)

The Spectrum of Art: Modes of Discourse

(13)

Film, Recording, and the Other Arts

(23)

Film, Photography, and Painting

Film and the Novel

Film and Theater

Film and Music

Film and the Environmental Arts

The Structure of Art

(4)

Technology: Image and Sound

(72)

Art and Technology

(10)

Image Technology

Sound Technology

The Lens

(11)

The Camera

(11)

The Filmstock

(17)

Negatives, Prints, and Generations

Aspect Ratio

Grain, Gauge, and Speed

Contrast, Tone, and Color

The Soundtrack

(5)

Post-Production

103

(9)

Editing

Mixing and Looping

Special Effects

Opticals and the Laboratory

The Uses of Video

112

(3)

Projection

115

(4)

The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax

119

(74)

Signs

121

(19)

The Physiology of Perception

Denotative and Connotative Meaning

Reading the Image

Syntax

140

(53)

Codes

Mise en Scene (The Framed Image)

The Diachronic Shot

Sound

Montage

Reading the Narrative

The Shape of Film History

193

(114)

``The Movies'': Economics

199

(18)

The Birth of Film

The Silent Business

Sound: The Studios

Film versus Television

The Conglomerates and Independents

``The Film'': Politics

217

(18)

Ontological Level

Mimetic Level

Inherent Level

Psychopolitics

Sociopolitics

``The Cinema'': Esthetics

235

(72)

Creating an Art

Lumiere versus Melies

The Silent Feature: Realism versus Expressionism

Hollywood: Genre versus Auteur

Neorealism and After: Hollywood versus the World

The New Wave and the Third World: Entertainment versus Communication (The New Wave

Avant Garde, Direct Cinema and Cinema Verite

England

Italy

Sweden

Eastern Europe

The Third World

Japan and Asia

New French Cinema

Das Neue Kino

Swiss Cinema

American Film Now)

The Eighties and Beyond; Democracy and Technology: End of Cinema

Film Theory: Form and Function

307

(40)

The Poet and the Philosopher: Lindsay and Munsterberg

312

(3)

Expressionism and Realism: Arnheim and Kracauer

315

(7)

Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Balazs, and Formalism

322

(6)

Mise en Scene: Neorealism, Bazin, and Godard

328

(10)

Film Speaks and Acts: Metz and Contemporary Theory

338

(9)

Media

347

(70)

Print and Electronic Media

351

(10)

The Technology of Mechanical and Electronic Media

361

(13)

Radio and Records

374

(6)

Television and Video

380

(31)

A Concluding Note: Media Democracy

411

(6)

APPENDIX I: A STANDARD GLOSSARY FOR FILM AND MEDIA CRITICISM

417

(46)

APPENDIX II: READING ABOUT FILM AND MEDIA

463

(32)

Part One: A Basic Library

466

(22)

Part Two: Information

488

(7)

APPENDIX III: FILM AND MEDIA: A CHRONOLOGY

495

(18)

Index

513

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