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Film Art : An Introduction,9780070066342

Film Art : An Introduction

by David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson

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5th

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9780070066342

ISBN10:

0070066345

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/1/1996

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McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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Table of Contents

Preface

ix

PART I TYPES OF FILMMAKING, TYPES OF FILMS

The Work of Film Production

3

(39)

Technical Factors in Film Production

3

(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)

Glossary

477

(6)

Internet Resources: Selected Reference Sites in Film from the World Wide Web

483

(2)

Credits

485

(2)

Index

487

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